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The Traveling Wilburys - George Harrison had been in a band. He wasn't looking to start another. But in 1988 he had a solo CD coming out. He had a song that could
The War on Drugs: “A Deeper Understanding” - If I have a late-life dream, it is this: to stand on a stage with those guys, playing the least important guitar. I saw The War on Drugs at Terminal 5,
Tift Merritt: Traveling Alone - Because it’s fairly obvious I have a soft spot for female writers and musicians, I get more than my share of CDs by female singer-songwriters. Most seem doomed --- they’re
Time Without Consequence - Can you hear that crinkling sound? That's me, shredding through cumbersome cellophane wrap. And that other sound? That is my car's stereo swallowing my new CD. What do you hear
Tom Rush -
Ultimate Collection - I know. It is so corny, so
Unplugged: Bryan Adams - Guilty Pleasures There's laundry
Van Morrison: Almost Independence Day - “Almost Independence Day" is the last song on Van Morrison’s 1972 release, “Saint Dominic’s Preview.” If you’re tired or restless or not willing to convert music to images in your
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks - In l968, I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just down the block from Van Morrison. Whenever we passed one another on the street, I would nod. Morrison would just stare. Or glare. "Unpleasant,"
Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece - For more years than most of you have been alive, I have believed that Astral Weeks is Van Morrison’s transcendent work. And for as long as I’ve been publishing Butler,
Warren Zevon - After one of his last shows, David Letterman asked Dawes to sing "Desperadoes Under the Eaves," a song by Warren Zevon, dead for more than a decade. It was an
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions -
What the World Needs Now: Burt Bacharach Classics - Burt Bacharach starred in a GEICO commercial. Burt Bacharach was in the Austin Powers movies. Burt Bacharach recorded with Elvis Costello and Dr. Dre. And when he was 77, Burt Bacharach was
Who Do U Think U R - There was a "No Bullying School Zone" sign posted in front of Hamilton Middle School in Cypress, Texas, but the message apparently was only for the kids outside. Asher Brown’s
Wild Belle - I showed my wife a photo of Natalie Bergman, half of the brother-sister group Wild Belle. She laughed. Long blond hair. Good features. A kind of vacant beauty. “I’ve see these crushes come,
Willie Nile - He was the next Bruce Springsteen. The next Dylan. The praise was off the hook --- even from Robert Palmer, of The New York Times: "Every once in awhile the
