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Road trip.
What does that mean to you? For me, time was when it meant good music, bad food, lots of laughs, lots of car trouble, escape from responsibility, and sex under the stars. Some of that still applies. With the Taylor Hicks tour taking a swamp crawl through the gulf states this week, it [...]

Oliver Sacks, the sooper-dooper famous neurologist—you know, the guy from Awakenings—has written a new book on music and the brain, called Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. It will be published in October.
As you might have guessed from my past posts on this blog, the topic of music and the brain is right up [...]

What’s on your plate today? What’s on your mind? I’m enjoying an incredibly lazy weekend (the first in a long time). I’m feeling like I want to start this with some tunes but am realizing I just can’t force my brain into a Sunday morning mood until I’ve finished Saturday night. See you in a [...]

With George Porter, Jr. playing his last gigs with the New Orleans Social Club this weekend, and the Taylor Hicks tour heading for a coast crawl this coming week, it seemed a good time to let the Jam (capital J) rest and give up the funk. If you don’t know, the NOSC was founded [...]

Yes I have. With the Taylor Hicks Band. Aw, play it.

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Life is crazybusy this week, so I’m taking the easy way out. For those of you still into thinking deep thoughts, carry on on the other posts - I’m loving the convo. For the rest of you:
If you’re paying attention at all, you’ve noticed that all the posts at this site, with the exception of [...]

I remember the first time I tasted ice-cream, I was a toddler; the first time I saw the ocean, I was three; the first time I held a kitten, I was 4. I remember the first time I heard a live Jam in Haight Ashbury , I was 12. Some new things feel strange [...]

[Note from the six-degrees-of-separation world of Taylor Hicks: In April 2006, a [wink] Taylor Hicks fan blog quotes Dave Eggers discussing whether The Flaming Lips have “sold out” and what selling out means. This puts The Flaming Lips squarely in the consciousness of any Taylor Hicks fan who bothers to really read the Eggers quote. [...]

There are 108 Grammy categories …….Why isn’t there a category for Best Jam Album, Best Jamband Album, or Best Jamband Performance? - Allen Ostroy, A Jammy at the Grammys?
One of the reasons that I’ve not paid any attention to the grammys over the years is that until very recently, almost all of my music listening [...]

Another Saturday, another open thread. Talk about whatever you want in some interesting orbit. Anyone go to the b’ham events last night? I’d love to hear about the reading or the music that went down.