j.s.lambTime 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…2 min read·Jan 23, 2022--1--1
j.s.lamb… 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…2 min read·Nov 15, 2021----
j.s.lamb‘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.2 min read·Nov 15, 2021--1--1
j.s.lambBorn 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?2 min read·Nov 14, 2021----
j.s.lamb“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…3 min read·Nov 13, 2021----
j.s.lambSongs 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…2 min read·Nov 13, 2021----
j.s.lambStoryWorth: “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…2 min read·Nov 13, 2021----