Seasonal Concerns: The Perfect Cover
The holiday season upon us, I am bracing myself for the onslaught of too-familiar music. I mention this because,...
24 November, 2009
What’s Wrong With White People?
Jill and I went to the funeral of a friend’s father last week. I’m not a fan of funerals. ...
24 June, 2009
Donovan et al.
One of the benefits of being a working musician is that I get into places I’d never get into otherwise—the...
30 March, 2009
Hey Joe and the Death of Mitch Mitchell
Drummer Mitch Mitchell, sixty-two years old, died abruptly last week, apparently of heart failure. In 1966, when he joined the...
19 November, 2008