Music Archive

Arvo Part - Do you recall how Michael Moore handled the attack on the World Trade Center in 'Fahrenheit 9/11'? To the surprise of those who hate him, he did it very, very artfully. Almost a minute

Asaf Avidan - The music of Asaf Avidan caused the child to make the rare visit to my office that was not about money. As ever, her assessment was blunt: “She is awful.” This is

Astral Weeks (Take Two) -     I was at a conference.

Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl - All decisions trail strands of complications, but my decision to start HeadButler.com had a simple fact at its core --- even those who professed to love the music

At Last - Our 7.75-year-old has learned how to download from iTunes. She’s willing to spend her tiny allowance on music, which means that, every week, two new samples of Disneyrock enter our

Bach: Mass in B minor - Bach’s B Minor Mass was never played in his lifetime, but once it was discovered a century or so later, it was an object of awe. Beethoven kept a picture

Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello - Before we consider the Bach Cello Suites, let's consider Yo-Yo Ma. Age: 7. At the White House in 1962. Playing, with his sister, for President and Mrs. Kennedy. Considering that the Bach Cello Suites

Back to Bedlam -   Back to Bedlam James Blunt James Blunt recently

Back to Bedlam (Take Two) -   Back to Bedlam (Take Two) James

Barbara Cook - I’m not a fan of musicals. Or cabaret singers. Or even the Great American Song Book. So I’m one of maybe three adults in this city who knew Barbara Cook’s

Basia Bulat - Head Butler hit an inflection point a while back with publishers and press agents, and now I am under siege. The books pile up, the CDs form a tower. It’s

Beautiful Dreamer -   Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen

Beethoven Violin Concerto - Franz Clement may not have been as great a violinist as Ludwig van Beethoven was a composer, but he was quite the celebrity in 19th century

Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles - If a classical CD sells 500 copies a week, that’s good enough to propel it to #1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical list. “Lent at Ephesus,” the second CD by

Best of Friends - When the bullshit level in the national conversation approaches the red line, I go back to basics. Men. Women. Sex. Love. John Lee Hooker. Why John Lee Hooker? As Bonnie Raitt, who recorded

Beth Hart - BETH HART ON TOUR: The last time I saw her, I wrote that she raised Joplin from the dead, honored Aretha, nodded in passing to Etta, and then drove on

Big Mama Thornton - The first night she sang at Harlem's Apollo Theater, she was Willie Mae Thornton, and she was the opening act. The following night, as "Big Mama" Thornton, she was the

Bill Hicks - “This is kind of a sentimental night for me,” Bill Hicks says at the start of “Rant in E-Minor,” the CD that best showcases his one-of-a-kind comedy. “This is the

Bill Morrissey - Guest Butler Michael P. Krupa is a psychologist and health care consultant whose interests include music, photography and poetry. He lives with his wife and children in Concord, Massachusetts. In the

Billie Holiday - Frank Sinatra, born in 1915, had a centennial year last year. It was quite a celebration --- the only white person who failed to bend a knee to Sinatra was