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Rock & Roll RePast: Vito & Salutations “Unchained Melody”
As the story goes, Rick Hyde, who later compiled the compelling, have-to-have-if-you-love-this-music, four disc “Doo Wop Box,” was sitting in a Miami Beach bar in the 80s. It was well past midnight,...
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Rock & Roll RePast: Peter Green’s “Black Magic Woman”
This is the fourth in a series. All the reigning theoretical physics ruminations and postulations remain a total mystery to me. Jabberwock. String theory. Overlapping universes. Anti-universe....
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Allen Toussaint “Tipitina & Me”: Rock & Roll Repast
This is the fifth in a series of rock & roll essays. First the man, then the song. The man was regal. Allen Toussaint walked about — no let’s be accurate — Allen Toussaint carried himself, always,...
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Rock & Roll RePast: Jeff Buckley “Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind
So, yeah, OK, it’s a kind of single guy scenario. One that plays out now and again through the decades. Different facts, similar essence. It looks more or less like this . . . . . . you’re at a holiday...
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Film Review Podcast: “Vinyl”
Okay, so, yeah the title of this post is kind of deceptive. “Vinyl” is not a film. What “Vinyl” is is a Martin Scorcese/ Mick Jagger-produced HBO series about the wild and wacky days of the music...
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Springtime, New Orleans, JazzFest & FOMS
New Orleans JazzFest starts this coming Friday. As I have for the last decade or so, I intend to blog daily about the city, the music, and the food. So the lyrics I’m about to quote were going to be at...
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Meg, OZ & A Neville to the Rescue
So, yeah, I dunno why I chose to drive to New Orleans from Louisville. Stoopid I guess. Save a little $$$ on air fare and a car rental. Geesh, what am I thinking, what am I gonna do, take it with me?...
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JazzFest Day I: Boffo Beginning
There have been days before down here when I left the Fest grounds totally sated, when I didn’t need to hear another note to head into the evening with a full heart and serene soul. When I didn’t even...
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JazzFest 1st Saturday: Alpha, Darcy & Van
For reasons too complicated and sordid to go into here, JazzFest got big about a decade ago. Really big. Instead of an essentially indigenous festival, featuring the music of New Orleans and Louisiana,...
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JazzFest Sunday: The Tradition Carried On
There’s a hole in the festival this year. Allen Toussaint is gone. Of all the incredible, important, influential artists from this town, the ones so infused with the spirit force of New Orleans music...
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JazzFest ’16: Daze Between
The Fest rests on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, before picking up again for a long Thursday through Sunday second hootenany. The period is cannily and most aptly dubbed the Daze Between. While there...
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The Snapshot Chronicles: 6/20/16
Fox News Interview with Dalai Lama. Listen I deplore Fox News as much as the next Leftie, but when they get it right, you gotta give ’em credit. Bret Baier recently interviewed the Lama, the flowing...
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The Snapshot Chronicles: 6/27/16
“Step On Up” Billy Joe Shaver (Sirius XM Outlaw Country). If Muddy Waters was the most masculine of the electric blues singers — and you know, really, he sang “I’m a Man,” and felt compelled to spell...
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Rock & Roll RePast: Vanilla Fudge “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
Once, when asked by a local rag to name his favorite guitar players, Wink O’Bannon, a guy who knows his way around that ax, put Neil Young on the list. Because, he offered, “Every solo Young plays...
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The Snapshot Chronicles: 7/12/16
Another Mule (Triangle Park). Kim’s back in town. So he and Monk and Barry and Don and Nick and Michael, whose jokes are corny as ever, but a smidge less blue, got it together for another reunion gig...
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The Spyglass Chronicles: 7/25/16
The eagle-eyed returnees among you have probably noticed a change in the title of this periodic endeavor to “The Spyglass Chronicles.” Upon which discovery, you are surely wondering, given the...
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The Spyglass Chronicles: 08/01/16
“Wild Night” Van Morrison (It’s Too Late To Stop Now, Vol. III) The kid scores a fake ID, borrows a disco shirt from his older brother, heads into his first Saturday night out and about, and walks...
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The Spyglass Chronicles: 08/08/16
Vittorio Storaro, Santo Loquasto “Café Society” Steve Carrell plays a namedropping super agent in 30s Hollywoodland. His deco wood-paneled office is, as my favorite movie critic Libby Gelman-Waxner...
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The Spyglass Chronicles: 8/16/16
“Affordable Shotguns Planned at Broadway, Baxter” Courier-Journal Headline. Geez, just what we need another gun shop. A discount one at that. Or, so I thought when reading that not so clear — to me,...
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The Spyglass Chronicles: 8/21/16
“Night Moves” Full Contact Karaoke. St. Joe’s Picnic. A run of the mill version of the Bob Seger’s most astute classic by an earnest but mediocre garage contingent. (Great band name though.) Only a...
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