God Is Dead (Again): Remembering Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sean MurphyTwenty-three years ago today. First day of classes, junior year. Standing in the bathroom with too...
Sanctuary*
I visited my mother’s grave the first several years for the same reason I used...
For My Mother on Her 70th Birthday
I’m scared, I said. “It’s okay,” she said. “You know I’ll never leave you, right?...
Art and Life (One Year Later)
(2003) Every so often I can’t help hoping that there will be a knock on...
The Past is Calling: The Who’s ‘Quadrophenia’ (Revisited)
Most popular Who album? No. Most important Who album? No. Most influential Who album? No....
Hey Gibson, Let’s Talk Guitar Albums (Revisited)
(August, 2010) Okay. Gibson (the fine folks who bring us some of our best guitars)...
Elvis Is (Still) Dead: Long Live The King (Revisited)
Poor Elvis. The one-time king is now more often the (big) butt of jokes (see?)....
Thoughts on the Olympics, Improvisation and Jay Adams (Revisited)
The Olympics, particularly the two most popular sports from each season—the gymnastics and figure skating—sells...
Ten Albums That Supposedly Suck (But Do Not): #1 (Revisited)
1. Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door (1979) There are three distinctive types of...
Ten Albums That Supposedly Suck (But Do Not): #2 (Revisited)
2. Black Sabbath, Never Say Die! (1978) Maybe Ozzy really did sell his soul to...