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Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino - Videos Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill Ain't That a Shame Let the Four Winds Blow Professor Longhair: Tipitina Dr. John: Tipitina In the '80s, when I found myself in New Orleans for three days on
Greatest Hits - Greatest Hits Billy Idol My iPod
Gun Metal Sky - I get many self-produced CDs. I try to listen to them all. Sadly, I usually make it only through a song or two. And then I send off an
Gym Music - I work out. In part, because I like going to the gym and the people I know there. But also, because like any sensible late-life father, I'd like to be
Haim - Almost exactly a year ago --- in the first edition of 2012 --- I wrote about Blake Mills, a California musician you never heard of. But you would, I
Hang Massive - I stumbled on Hang Massive, fell under its spell and put it in heavy rotation. And then I licensed the rights for the video preview of my novel. One
Harry Clarke - "Harry Clarke" was the best play I saw in 2017. It came back briefly in 2018. And is now gone. Forever. [Do not despair. There's an audiobook. It costs
Harry Styles: “Matilda” - You are not a teenage girl, so you may not be aware that Harry Styles begins 15 nights at Madison Square Garden on August 20, moves on to 5 nights
Herbie Mann - SUPPORTING BUTLER: You can become a patron of this site, and automatically donate any amount you please — starting with $1 — each month. The service that enables this is
Holidays ’09: Ten Music CDs No One Else Will Suggest - It’s the season of the boxed set and the Christmas CD. (Bob Dylan, anyone?) The month of Susan Boyle and “Glee”, Rihanna and Lady GaGa. To quote Sarah Palin, “Thanks, but
Holly Gleason on Prince: “Like the snake in the garden, he gave us an apple that tasted like music… and sex… and love.” - em>An artist dies, and only then, as we step back, do we start to see him/her whole. So it was with Bowie, so now with Prince. Small as a refugee,
Howlin’ Wolf - Sex. As the reward for surviving the day. As intimate touch, souls connecting through flesh, a magic communion, maybe the closest we can come to the Divine. Or just rabid
Hozier & Mavis Staples: Nina Cried Power - It's not the waking, it's the rising It is the grounding of a foot uncompromising It's not forgoeing of the lie It's not the opening of eyes It's not the waking, it's the
Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep Mountain High - "River Deep Mountain High" --- the song ranked #33 on Rolling Stone's list of "500 Best Songs of All Time" --- is credited to Ike & Tina Turner. But don't
Impossible for me not to think of this now: Bob Dylan, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” - He wrote it in 1965. He could have written this today. Listen.... William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll, With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel
In times of trouble, reach for music that’s comfort food for the soul: Danit Treubig, Beethoven, Víkingur Ólafsson, Cesaria Evora, Miles Davis, and more - It’s almost May, but it feels like March here: gray, windy, chilly, with rare gorgeous days. The news is no help --- it delivers a steady message of stupid and
J.J. Cale - J.J. Cale died on July 26th, 2013, at 74. If your interest in music is more than casual, you may know that Eric Clapton did not write "Cocaine" and "After
J.J. Cale: Roll On - Until the 20th Century, no one asked artists to “grow” or “change”. A painter, musician or writer emerged with a style, and if it was deemed commercially acceptable,
Jackson Browne - Listening to 'Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1' --- Jackson Browne's new 'live' CD --- I time-travel back to 1966. I was 20, and, in my prodigious way, writing a piece about a
