“We put it out on vinyl.” “Vinyl?” “Yes, vinyl.” “You mean like an LP?” I asked. Believing that the last recording committed to an actual two-sided...
Normandie Wilson is a lounge singer who writes songs in the mold of the Brill Building, Carole King, and Burt Bacharach — pop confections that are...
Hello Troubadourians! Back in July I shared a brief treatise on tube amplifiers. I also mentioned that I would talk about non-tube amps in a later...
The Seed I can’t remember where I was the first time I heard Jeff Berkley perform, but I can remember what I felt: everything. His fingers...
My lovely friend Nodique Deneen recently, briefly turned my thoughts away from another maddeningly illiterate television commercial (which ends “We all want to be a mom...
Jazz fans and other music lovers will have an opportunity to celebrate a local music icon on September 9, which has been declared (by Mayor Faulconer)...
What’s that spinning voodoo I hear? Is that whirling, swirling sound the tidy bowl man’s last hurrah? Perhaps my stomach is informing my brain that two...
Last year Pamela Reinagel released In the Shadow of the Mountain, an EP of traditional American folk songs sung solo and a cappella. Her presentation had...
So a loved one died, or you got divorced, or you didn’t get the job you wanted. Unforeseen health challenges make real your mortality. The recognition...