makes it all worth it!!

Music vs. Music Awards

I know there is a place for recognition of great artists and their performances, but instead of watching the universally panned AMA show last night, I got to see Adrianne in a perfect venue at SPACE.

Here is a video from her 'red couch sessions'...

been a while...

...this sums up why....

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

crosscut saw

always amazed at how many songs by old blues guys get misattributed to contemporary performers...listening to a mid-day thing on XM that is featuring (so far) at least 12 different versions of the song 'Crosscut Saw'...clapton, albert king, stevie ray, and a bunch of folks i don't recognize. made me curious about who wrote it so i got on 'the google' - to quote our soon to be ex-prez (yippee!) - and found out that it was written by one r.g. ford. ten more minutes of googlin' - to say it like the thankfully unelected VP moron - revealed absolutely nothing about the guy/gal. nothing. and i'm pretty good at this...so if anybody knows, leave me a comment about this mysterious writer of a blues classic!

Say it ain't so!!!!???? WTF??????

as i sit drinking an Intelligentsia Black Cat Classic, i hear the gentle wafting of Christmas-freakin'-music...i'll be sick of it by Thanksgiving!!! what the hell is wrong with us????

'Roadrunner'

they have the 'embed' function disabled and the quality of the video isn't too great, but here it is anyway...JT plays a pretty decent harp, eh wendy and trina?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4m40ffK5mk

JT 'Covers'

mentioned James Taylor's "covers" CD the other day since my pal Troy Johnson has a tune that he penned featured on it...well, the rest of the thing is great too! he has always had a way of connecting with a song that makes it seem like he wrote it. very true here. and his version of 'roadrunner' - the classic junior walker tune - is awesome...taking me back to the days of listening to CKLW out of detroit that made me certain i was destined to be a soul-man....hahahahaha