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BLOG – “Tupelo Honey”
What’s your favorite song? I realize that we’re just getting to know each other on this blog, and I know it’s a deep question, but I believe it’s so important that you be able to answer it. Shuffling through the playlist in the history of your mind is not easy. So many great moments: concerts, [...]
BLOG – “INTERVENTION OF A MUSIC HOARDER”
“Hi. My name is Ben and I’m a musicoholic. Cover to cover Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is my ecstasy. My marijuana is Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds.’ Anything by Joss Stone serves as my crack cocaine fix. And who needs ED drugs when God gave us Marvin Gaye and Maxwell?” I’m told that admitting to [...]
Guest Blog: Born to Rock III
There are two reasons why you’ve not seen hide nor hair of me in this little corner of the internet. I’ve been working long hours at my regular gig and… I just haven’t been able to get the words to work. Writer’s block is a pain, especially when you have ideas but for whatever reason, [...]
GUEST BLOG – Born to Rock II
As I write this, it’s hard for me to pound out the right words to even use. My mind’s reeling from the news: Ronnie James Dio, arguably one of the best singers in heavy metal, is dead. On May 16, 2010, he lost his battle with stomach cancer. The news has the entire metal community [...]
GUEST BLOG – “The Extraordinary Power of Love”
Look at the sky–it’s the color of love.” Only Sade could come up with those words–a sweet, simple, powerful statement. Cooing those lyrics in the “Kiss of Life”, with a sky that’s always changing, captivating and vast, her metaphor is quite fitting for love–a powerful emotion—beautiful, strange and sometimes, quite painful to experience. Thought if [...]
GUEST BLOG – “Born to Rock”
My name is Omer Carrothers, and I was born to rock. I’d say that’s a much better introduction to you than ripping off the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil”, one of the most over-saturated songs in existence as a way of presenting myself to you gentle reader. While it’s a good song, it’s still [...]
Why Did You (Ba)Du That?
Erykah Badu has just been charged with disorderly conduct by the Dallas Police Department for the naked, public video she recently shot near the JFK memorial. The video for “Window Seat” has garnered all sorts of publicity – much of it negative in her home city of Dallas. Today (Friday, April 2nd), Sergeant Warren Mitchell said, [...]
BLOG – “THE HALVING OF MAYER’S HEART”
Recently I read a great article in Rolling Stone. Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton interviewed together. Guitar royalty talking about the evolution of The Yardbirds, their admiration for each other’s talents and their subtle competition to outdo each other. Both agreed that B.B. King is the Master of Blues and Jimi Hendrix is the God [...]
BLOG – “SXSW WATERFALL”
It was an average winter night in early 2007. My wife and I were sitting on the couch unwinding from a long day. The TV was on, but we were obliviously lost in our own worlds. Then, all of a sudden, the silence was shattered with a smooch. Not from the misses and me. From [...]
