Music Archives
Kenny White - Friends took me to see Kenny White.
Mavis Staples - If you're of a certain age, this CD is an invitation to time-travel back to the 1960s. Not the '60s of war protest.
Pete Townshend - Forget that they invented the rock opera and could drop from full-bore arena band to acoustic grace.
The Dionne Warwick Collection - How can you tell if you're young? Well, when you think of Dionne Warwick, do you think of those infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network? Is the l
10 Remixes, Les Negresses Vertes - Esther Perel, the therapist who wrote Mating in Captivity, has a radical explanation for marital bed death.
21st Century Breakdown, Green Day - Consumer Warning: This is not a site that deals with politics; I struggle with that sometimes, but I generally manage to take no positions or even ref
A Christmas Gift for You, Phil Spector - Phil Spector is a killer and a sleaze, but he is also a tragedy.
A Date with John Waters - A Date with John Waters     Those who have heeded my advice and added A John Waters Christmas to their holiday music co
A John Waters Christmas - Do you know John Waters? Of course you do --- he's the film director from Baltimore. The one with the sinister moustache.
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane - On December 9, 1964 --- as I write, forty years ago to the day --- tenor saxophonist John Coltrane gathered his band in a darkened studio in New Jer
A Venetian Coronation, 1595, Gabrieli Consort - It's good to be king --- or, in Venice, Doge. The Doge was the chief magistrate. Thus, a man of a certain age and accomplishment.
Abdel Wright -     Abdel Wright How's this for a Cinderella story? The boy never knew his father.
Adele - “Television,” a wise man said, “is not to watch, it’s to appear on.”  My sentiments, exactly.
Aftermath, The Rolling Stones - The "world's greatest rock band" has been a parody of itself for so long that even those of us who were around when they earned the tit
Alabama Shakes - I think it all the time: Where is the successor to Otis Redding? Janis Joplin? Mavis Staples?
Alabama Shakes (Take 2) - You’d like to know which of the new hot books you should read, or if the top-grossing new movie is worth it, or what the cool kids are listening
Albert King: Born Under a Bad Sign - One of 13 children. As a child in Arkansas, picked cotton. Grew up to be 6’4”, 250 pounds on a thin day.
Ali Farka Toure - March 7, 2006 - Ali Farka Toure died in his sleep last night.
Alicia Keys - I usually make fun of Valentine’s Day. It’s too depressing to do anything else. All those couples jammed into restaurants.
Alison Krauss - Alison Krauss   My parents lived in Nashville for 25 years, and so, when my father died, my mother asked the musician she knew