Pop music is an exhausted medium today insofar as inventiveness is concerned. This is probably true of art more generally. Everything refers...

Have you ever had one of those days where you have a rocky time of it just as soon as you get out of bed, and then the rest of the day goes ...

Another dispatch from the peak of human civilization, a clip capturing all the burgeoning possibility and optimism of the mondo mod era. I t...

Years before he became the desperado under the eaves, Warren Zevon had a patchy if also fascinating career that included being one half of t...

I know I'm given to hyperbole when it comes to talking about the music I adore, but I truly believe that The Turtles Present The Battle ...

The Neil Diamond kick I've been on has me thinking about Jeff Barry (nee Joel Adelberg). Barry produced many of Diamond's early hits...

I first heard Song Sung Blue when Mac Davis sang it on his variety show. Remember The Mac Davis Show ? I must’ve been 5 or 6 years old, an...

I love the way the emotion builds in tonight's song. When Neil Diamond does the confessional thing, I feel like he's speaking to an...

Thinking about David Ackles yesterday, my mind turned to Judee Sill, who, like Ackles, seemed to have too many things working against her to...

The cold, hard, driving rains returned last night with a vengence, making the freeways extremely treacherous as my good buddy and I made our...

This has already beaten this topic to death in my previous blog, but Jimmy Webb’s MacArthur Park captures the precise moment at which the 60...

The lonely one can’t really do Glen Campbell justice without including his pitch-perfect rendition of John Hartford’s Gentle on my Mind, whi...

Aaron Abramson and Sitting Bull were seated at the soundboard console when Zolie and Jefferson entered the control booth for Studio 3A at Su...

The signature Jimmy Webb happy/sad chord change in By the Time I get to Phoenix is a double whammy. It hits you the first time when Glen Cam...