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nils lofgren

Nils Lofgren

I’m not anal enough to have my disks alphabetized — how else would one randomly find stuff! Anyway, well before Nils joined the E-Street Band and before Springsteen’s break out album of ’75 (Born to Run) I thought Nils should have been as big as what BS did eventually become. Who could forget the elegiac “Keith…

alban berg

Alban Berg documentary

Good find — H/T Edmund Neill Below, my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces of music (To the Memory of an Angel)   alban bergcolin davisgidon kremermusicTo the Memory of an Angeltwelve tone

Lionel Ferbos

Lionel Ferbos (1911 – 2014)

It was just a couple of days ago that Lionel’s birthday was being commemorated. Here is the announcement. One of my favorite albums is the one below, bridging the generations. JazzLionel Ferbosmusicnew orleansTrombone Shortytrumpet

robert plant

Robert Plant: new fall release

Track listing   Why is it that we’re still hanging on every word Robert Plant sings? Why are his recordings so eagerly anticipated over 40 years into his career in pop music? Two reasons stand out above all others. First: his voice. Surely the predominant element in reaching listeners, in making a connection with each…

Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70 (Below, the first JW album I heard, very different from much that dominated the charts in ’73. In particular his performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test was striking). bluesguitarJohnny Wintermuddy watersmusicRolling Stones

Louis Armstrong, Ricky Riccardi

Louis Armstrong

Died on this day in 1971 — the 20th Century’s greatest musician. Here is Pop’s #1 fan and keeper of the flame on the recent Mosaic release. Also, here is a recent interview with Ricky. gospelJazzLouis ArmstrongmusicRicky Riccardi

muscle shoals, music, Rick Hall

Muscle Shoals

Top-notch documentary about an amazing man and his sense of place (even the usually irritating talking heads such as Bono are for once palatable). Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River,” as…