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On what’s post “hit me baby one more time,” I commented that I like variety on my radio, but I often get ‘hooked’ on a song or two and listen over and over and over again on my ipod or stereo.
Right now, at this moment, I’m hooked on Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings CD, [...]

If Hicks has turned you onto Van Morrison’s music (or helped you rediscover it) but you haven’t made much of a dent in collecting his work, now’s a good time to start. Over two dozen of Morrison’s albums are being reissued. The first set comes out today and includes Tupelo Honey (1971), It’s Too Late [...]

My friends with small children tell me that one of the more annoying things about that otherwise endearing demographic is that they love to see/hear/read the same things over and over and over. Perfectly rational parents are rendered insane by Shrek overexposure.
So I’ve long wondered why commercial radio plays the same few songs over and [...]

As child of the 80’s, who simultaneously fell in love with Prince and Depeche Mode, falling for Jamie Lidell was only natural for me.
Multiply is one of my favorite albums ever. Seriously. I love that album. And now, check it out! My favorite spastic funky fresh slightly eccentric British soul singer is working [...]

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King
Mind, spirit, action. Did any 20th century thinker see as clearly as Dr. Martin Luther King how our humanity and future depended so much on all three?
Recently I read an unattributed comment that Dr. King considered music to be the [...]

You know what this blog needs? More R&B!
Let’s put on some Angie Stone, The Art of Love and War.
Go Back To Your Life

These Are The Reasons

Pop Pop

Happy Being Me

All right.

Melanie Nyema, the terrific back-up singer from the spring Taylor Hicks tour, has followed her erstwhile bosses’ lead and auditioned for American Idol. Well.
Here she is, helping Hicks close out the tour with a send-up, mash-up of “Dancing Queen” and Hicks’ AI coronation anthem.

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After [...]

For a biz-free weekend: some music, without the packaging.

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(Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks: Old Friend)

You will like the Tommy Castro Band if you like blues guitar and soul. If you like ‘brass with ass.’ If you like that old time rock n’ roll. If you like BB King. If you like Bob Seger. And, as I sit listening to Tommy Castro’s album Painkiller, I realize that most who liked [...]

Taylor Hicks has been dropped from his recording contract with J Records, according to this article in the Hollywood Insider. Is this a sweet release for Hicks? Too soon to tell, too soon to even know if the report is accurate.
But you can’t open a music publication these days without seeing something on the state [...]