Sorry I’ve been absent from class lately. Life got busy. But now, here I am, so let’s get into it. Friday’s musical moment finds me listening in the waking hours (for me between 6am and 8am) to Bonnie Raitt’s double live album “Road Tested.” Road Tested is one of the finest and most accurate live […]
Author: Matt Wardlaw
The genius of Will Ferrell (with a good amount of help from Dave Grohl)
I can always count on Heather Browne to start my Monday off with a smile via her I Am Fuel, You Are Friends blog. This particular Monday was no exception. If you haven’t seen Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl doing Leather and Lace as originally done by Don Henley and Stevie Nicks, you’ll enjoy this. […]
Sheryl Crow plus Fleetwood Mac equals awesome
According to Spinner.com, Sheryl Crow is set to “join” Fleetwood Mac for a collaboration, probably in 2009. I’d like to see it – Sheryl and Stevie certainly have the chemistry, and it would be interesting to see how Sheryl would fit in to the overall Fleetwood Mac picture. From a songwriting standpoint, I think that […]
Festival Overload: When are there too many festivals?
Everybody and their brother are in full swing, blogging the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival happening in Austin, TX. SXSW is an annual 10 day overdose of audio/visual paradise for movie and music fans. For the past several years, I’ve had the goal to go to SXSW – heck, my aunt and uncle live […]
Song of the Moment – Yes – Love Will Find A Way
The song Love Will Find A Way has been on my mind the past few days. No, not the Amy Grant song Find A Way from her Unguarded CD release, although that is definitely another favorite, and the one that introduced me to Amy’s music, as it happens. Amy Grant – Find A Way (live) […]
Fun with Journey – Stone in Love and Ask The Lonely
So you’re a group of kids, and you’ve got a video camera, and some video editing skills. You’re bored, so what should you do? Make parody videos for a couple of Journey songs, of course! I think the one for Stone In Love is the best of the two, but they’re both fun! Stone In […]
RIP Jeff Healey
I was saddened to hear that Jeff Healey passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Angel Eyes was the soundtrack for my first slow dance, and remains a favorite track of mine to this day. Healey was an artist that has been forever on my list of artists to further explore. As much of […]
Maybe We Ain’t That Young Anymore – John Cusack and Better Off Dead
Get the led out! That is all! Savage Steve Holland’s Better Off Dead is hands down one of my favorite movies from the 80s. The kind of movie that I’ve owned multiple copies of, in multiple formats – even working hard to track down the hard to find laserdisc version prior to the film’s eventual […]
Shelby Lynne loves the analog
Kudos to the fine folks over at The Vinyl District for this great reading from Shelby Lynne about her new album Just A Little Lovin’. On a side note, she mentions legendary record producer Phil Ramone (Billy Joel, etc) within this article. If you haven’t read Phil’s great book Making Records yet, it is a […]
U2 3-D: The Movie
I finally saw U2 3-D last night. I’ve been dying to see it, and while I’ve been waiting for it to open in Cleveland, I’ve heard from every friend in every other city, many of them casual U2 fans at best, raving about it, telling me that I needed to go out and see it. […]