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Danit Treubig - Danit Treubig doesn't make it easy to learn about her. The music is easier to find; a lot of what she’s recorded is on YouTube. Let's begin there, where I
Darkness at the Edge of Town - It seems like only yesterday that the best friend I no longer talk to and the woman who should have been at least my first wife piled into
David Byrne and St. Vincent - A Park Avenue matron went blind, recovered her sight, and asked Diana Vreeland to show her what she’d missed. Mrs. V took her to see “Deep Throat.” When the movie started, the
David Byrne: American Utopia - David Byrne’s “American Utopia" was the best show I saw in 2019. I urged friends to see it: "Pay any price." They did. And they thanked me. If you missed the
Dawes - Summer always has a song. In Rome, a decade ago, we couldn’t go anywhere without hearing Me Gustas Du. In every cab. Out of every shop. Just a simple, bouncy tune
Dawes: “A Little Bit of Everything” - In July, I fell in love with From a Window Seat, a song by Dawes. New month, new obsession. Not far from the last one. It’s “A Little Bit of
Dawes: “Living in the Future” - NOTE: I'm well aware that Butler is a "no politics" zone. I don't think this is "politics." The blows come so fast now it's hard to remember that it was only
Dawn Landes: Sweet Heart Rodeo - Somewhere out there is a writer who can fill a screen about a friend’s wife as if he and she were sole proprietors who just happen to share an apartment. Not
Del Shannon - Talk about underrated. Charles Westover --- he called himself Del Shannon because he liked a would-be wrestler named Mark Shannon and he admired his boss’s car, a Cadillac Coupe de
Devils & Dust - Devils & Dust Bruce
Dion - Do you know the Jorge Luis Borges story, Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote? Menard wants to write the Cervantes classic --- for the second time. Not from
Divas of Mali - I know why the caged bird sings. Mali once controlled much of the African gold trade; now it's the world's fifth poorest nation. If you've read Peace Corps volunteer Kris
Djivan Gasparyan - In the middle of the night, when it’s so quiet that you can barely hear the breeze, what kind of music would you want to hear? Something that honors the
Don Henley: Cass County - Guest Butler Joe DePreta is a New York marketing executive and writer on cultural trends. I’m an Eagles fan. If you say that, people often snicker. That’s because the Eagles are
Don Schlitz - UPDATE: Don Schlitz was one of three 2017 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. How totally cool. A few years after my parents moved to Nashville, my mother
Donovan - Wild hair, tie-dye shirts, peace signs, acid trips, soft-headed mysticism --- that Donovan? The guy who sang about smoking banana peels and the glories of Atlantis? The poor
Dr. John - I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time I was sayin' the right things, but I must have used the wrong line I was on the
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Up From Below - When it’s time to name the Song of the Year, list-makers who don’t put “Home” in their Top Five may come to feel…sheepish. That's because there's a medicine show
Eli “Paperboy” Reed - Every summer has a song. I knew “Nights Like This” was the soundtrack of Summer 2016 the first time I heard it. The ingredients were all in place: hot streets, “feeling
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Porgy & Bess - Two thousand five hundred musicians have recorded “Summertime” --- it's a classic. (I bet most Americans can name Janis Joplin and no other singer.) As for
