Time to Change the old oil …On Monday, Jan. 24th, I’ll be 75 years old — or (as I like to think of it as) the 57th anniversary of my 18th birthday. Ah youth … Where…Jan 23, 20221Jan 23, 20221
… if the Mamas & the Papas were from the UkraineForget Hip-Hop. Country music, too. Rock & Roll? Passé. I’ve seen the future, and it’s DakhaBrakha, a “world-music quartet” from Kyiv…Nov 15, 2021Nov 15, 2021
‘But I thought that you might like to know’ — Sgt. PepperOn June 4, 1967, Jimi Hendrix performed at the Saville Theater in London. Beatles bass player Paul McCartney was in the audience.Nov 15, 20211Nov 15, 20211
Born with one bad eye, he went blind in the other …Bob Dylan once wrote, “Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell.” Who am I to argue with that?Nov 14, 2021Nov 14, 2021
“In My Own Dream . . .”I was flat on my back listening to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band play “In My Own Dream” — thinkin’ I was in heaven but knowin’ I was on…Nov 13, 2021Nov 13, 2021
Songs of the Humpback WhaleIn 1970 Roger Searle Payne released an album featuring some of the biggest singers of all time — and I don’t mean Elvis, The Beatles or…Nov 13, 2021Nov 13, 2021
StoryWorth: “Did you ever get in trouble at school as a child?”On my first day of school at St. Benedict’s in Geistown, PA, there was a bunch of boys fighting in the middle of the playground at…Nov 13, 2021Nov 13, 2021
