Every Day is Mother’s Day (Revisited)
Sean MurphyI’m fortunate, in a sense, to be the type of person that gets more sentimental...
50 Albums You May Not Know…But Need To Own: Part Two (Revisited)
40. Aram Bajakian: There Were Flowers Also in Hell Who is Aram Bajakian? He’s been...
50 Albums You May Not Know…But Need To Own: Part One (Revisited)
NO SELF-RESPECTING writer should ever undertake the process of making a list lightly. As we...
Ornette Coleman and The First Day of the Rest of My Life (Revisited)
Topic: The Album You’d Give Anything To Hear Again for The First Time I still...
The David Lynch Dilemma (Revisited)
With the 25th anniversary edition of the seminal/infamous/underwhelming Blue Velvet being released this week, it...
Six Love Songs (Revisited)
I seldom need an excuse to talk about Love (not that Love, this Love). I’m...
Mark Twain: The Big Daddy of American Letters (Revisited)
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in...
Beauty is a Rare Thing: Celebrating International Jazz Day (Revisited)
All hope is not lost. At least enough people are still making –and listening to–...
The Song Remains The Same or, The Agony of Influence (Revisited)
Two thoughts from T.S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month… Whatever. Good poets borrow; great...
Happy Birthday Chazz: Mingus at 93
Today would have been (and, still is) Charles Mingus’s 93rd birthday. I’ve written about him...