“All summer, I was just taking in a lot of things – friends who would be splitting up, and others who would be getting together. The reason I called the album The Stranger wasn’t just because of the song. Each song on it seemed to have some kind of strangeness, some kind of alienation about […]
Category: The 70s
More information on that new album from Randy Newman
I wrote briefly about the pending new release from Randy Newman, and now thanks to Tampa Bay pop music writer Sean Daly, I’ve got a few more details to share with you about the album. The album, called Harps and Angels, is in stores on August 5th. Sean writes: NPR’s All Songs Considered is raving […]
A really cool tattoo for all of you vinyl lovers
I’m in Minneapolis for work, and was in a cab tonight, headed back to the hotel after dinner. My fellow vinyl loving friend and co-worker Michael made note that he thought that the cab driver had a tattoo of one of those old 45 adapters. After taking a closer stealth look, he determined that that […]
Close Captioned Cocker (Joe, that is)
One of the funniest moments ever in my life, came courtesy of the infamous “performance” featuring Joe Cocker and John Belushi on Saturday Night Live. Cocker continues to be an (at times) unintentional source of humor, as evidenced by this video from Youtube, which makes brilliant use of performance footage from Woodstock: Joe Cocker – […]