My family owns a large used bookstore in Nashville, not far from Music Row. I worked there when I…
I meant to kill my record collection a few times already. I never followed it through, and I can’t understand why.
Let’s have a look at the facts:
We all have our formidable, life-altering events. There are many—a lot more than we…
While reading Listen to This — a great collection of essays about music by New Yorker writer Alex Ross — one passage…
Wild guess: There’s no jazz on 99% of American bucket lists. Likely there aren’t many people who would say they wish to learn more about this art form, which has been…
In modern music, there are only a few albums which its listening experience expands beyond the listening itself…
For many years during and after college, I played in a band. We toured the country in a van. We released albums. We had no…
