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GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS DON’T NEED NO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS TO MAKE “isolation” music. It’s encoded in their DNA. Whether a Gillian Welch “solo” album or a David Rawlings Machine group release, this unique duo…
SEAN CONNERY (1930-2020) ALEX TREBEK(1940-2020) THIS ROTTEN YEAR–THE ABSOLUTE WORSE IN RECENT MEMORY–WILL NOT ABATE. THIS blog was not conceived to be a series of requiems of luminaries, and yet so many entries are obituaries.…
SEQUEL: A SIX-LETTER WORD. SOMETIMES A REVELATION, USUALLY A CURSE WORD. ONE episode of the second season of The Mandalorian is hardly a sample size to evaluate its merits, of course. Among what made the…
Continue Reading THE RETURN OF BABY YODA…AND, OH YEAH, MANDO: THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 2
IN BELATED HONOR OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOM PETTY’S 70TH BIRTHDAY, here is a list of my favorite Tom Petty performances. I’ve selected performances rather than just a compiled list of his songs, even…
Continue Reading 70 @ 70: 70 TOM PETTY PERFORMANCES TO REMEMBER HIM BY
POOR LASLO, I HOPE HE’S ALIVE AND I HOPE HE’S HOLDING UP. (NOT AN UNUSUAL thought when you hit 50 and older about people you haven’t seen in decades. And I’m too adverse to Facebook…
HOW IN THE HELL DOES A SELF-PROCLAIMED “WHITE BOY FROM HICKMAN”[Kentucky] create a better “Black Lives Matter” song in 2020 than anyone actually Black?!? How in the hell does an artist summon more moral courage…
Continue Reading NOT PREACHIN’ TO THE CHOIR, OR WHY TYLER CHILDERS’ PROTEST SONG IS SO DAMN POTENT
TWO SCI-FI TRAILERS RECENTLY CAUGHT MY EYE, ONE EXPECTED, THE OTHER NOT so much, yet it held my attention far longer than I expected. I haven’t been a science fiction buff since my boyhood. This…
Continue Reading TWO SCI-FI TRAILERS: MORE SAND, MORE SENSATION
THE ABOVE MEME IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT DIANA RIGG. IF YOU ARE over 50 and of a certain sexual disposition the death of Diana Rigg might have sent you into a sadness at…
CHARLIE “YARDBIRD” PARKER STILL CAN’T CATCH A BREAK. WHAT SHOULD have been his glorious centennial year has been effectively capsized by the corona virus pandemic and the worst racial strife in America since the 1960s. …
Continue Reading EVEN AFTER A HUNDRED YEARS CHARLIE “BIRD” PARKER STILL NEEDS AN INTRODUCTION
FOR DECADES THE “GOLD STANDARD” FOR ROCK TELL-ALL BOOKS WAS Stephen Davis’s Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, perhaps followed by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman’s No One Here Gets Out Alive, the…