In the winter of 1993 I traveled from Los Angeles to Tahiti and for the trip I jammed a couple dozen CDs into my backpack along with my Sony Discman. It’s hard to recall everything I was listening to back […]
In the winter of 1993 I traveled from Los Angeles to Tahiti and for the trip I jammed a couple dozen CDs into my backpack along with my Sony Discman. It’s hard to recall everything I was listening to back […]
I am sitting in my bedroom, which during this pandemic has been multitasking as an office for my daily income-earning job. It also serves as my music room and sleeping quarters. There are three guitars each tuned differently on […]
You may have caught the story on cable news or perhaps social media, but last Friday a singer-songwriter named Clayton Gardner was livestreaming an outdoor acoustic show in front of a small, socially distanced audience in Las Colinas, Texas. He […]
This year my birthday happened to fall on a Saturday in February, the 22nd if you need to know, and at my age it’s not something I tend to celebrate any longer. I went to work as I usually do, […]
I love this image of Ringo Starr’s drum kit. I was going to use a picture of him, but this set of Ludwig black pearls seems so iconic that it instantly identifies the man who sat behind them. And while […]
On Feb. 13, 2019, The New York Times published an article titled “Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price.” It began with a three-paragraph overview of the then-44-year-old artist’s 20-year career, citing his 16 albums, seven Grammy […]
Hi there, it’s Ed. Hope this finds you and those in your life healthy and safe, wherever you may be. I won’t bother asking how y’all are coping, because anyone who has had their livelihoods chopped off at the knees […]
When my dad was born in 1919, music that was performed by black people was released on 78 rpm discs and called “race records.” It was a designation of multiple genres, including blues, jazz, and spirituals. By the time I […]
If you happened to look at social media on Tuesday, June 2, you might have seen that major corporations, celebrities, activists, artists, musicians, athletes, a current president’s daughter, and a whole bunch of regular folks had posted a big black […]
Twenty years ago I was the head of sales for an independent record distributor based in Minneapolis that has since faded from existence. When I joined the company, one of our divisions was quite successful in the software industry, providing […]
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