Elsewhere on this blog I have written about my father's life, including a transcript of autobiographical writings he left behind. After...

How do you even begin to tell the story of a place that feels like it has always been there? As a teenager I was very fortunate to get a...

Arguably one of America’s most important cultural contributions of the 20th century, Jazz now languishes in relative obscurity. Still...

BE THE TREE Fresh as a morning flower in your grandmother's garden Solid as a Colorado Mountain Vast as the expanse of outer space,...

Sinatra’s elocution, his phrasing, the way he could articulate both words and melody simultaneously was uncanny, immaculate, perfection. ...

Joe Henry is the perfect storm of singer/songwriter/producer. Right out of the box, the singular sound of his production is always...

Back in Cincinnati when my girl dumped me I was bummin' and hurt bad. So I drank a lot and tried to make time with everything that moved...

By the time I moved to New York City in the spring of 1995 I had been thinking about it and talking about it for a long time. I had been...

Little Axe Champagne & Grits Real World Records, 2004 Son of a Bluesman and one time member of the legendary Sugar Hill Records rhythm...

Saturday March 20, 2010 Austin, TX Saturday was a long and lazy day for our party. After staying up way too late partying Friday night,...

Flashback to March 2010! Much like Christ had Satan, Buddha’s arch-nemesis is a nasty entity known as Mara. All the obstructions and...

20 years ago I took a cross-country solo journey through 17 states, driving 5,600 miles over a 6-week period. Tent camping alone most...

Every breath is miraculous. Every heartbeat, every synapse. Every millisecond of our existence is a miracle. Many of us struggle with...

Berlin at Magic Mountain February 20, 1983 Forty years ago this week I was on a family vacation in Southern California and we went to...

I was talking to a good friend recently about Frank Zappa's 1981 double album TINSEL TOWN REBELLION. Ostensibly a record review, this is...

KISS TRIVIA TIME! Which one of the four solo albums contains no cover tunes? PAUL STANLEY Which member of the band was born in 1949? GENE...

You as a teenager. You will always be that person and you will never be that person again. It's like a story you started writing when you...

Manitas De Plata - Juerga! (Originally released in 1963) I originally bought this album for the cover. I mean, LOOK at that. My first...

On March 11, 1989 I saw the Replacements at Bogart's in Cincinnati. This was my third or fourth time seeing the band and they were great...

Stand before a mirror and see your reflection. Take a hammer and strike the mirror with just enough force to make it crack. You can still...