Question du jour
Where did your taste in music come from? Did you inherit it from your parents, did you listen to the radio as a kid, did the web play a role? Trace the origins of your taste in music for us, please.
View ArticleEdmund Fitzgerald revisited
Gordon Lightfoot has changed the lyrics to his signature number, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The not-dead Canadian music legend got new information about how the ship went down from a...
View ArticleAnd now for something different.
that_john, filling in for Dan, on vacation… As many of you may know, I am an unabashed music follower. Music is a thread through my life having brothers in bands as long as I can remember. It’s as much...
View ArticleWhere do you go to find your new music?
that_john, filling in for Dan, on vacation… _______________________________________ In keeping with my conversation yesterday about music, I wanted to talk about musical discoveries — specifically...
View ArticleMusic
What are you listening to these days? What are the last three albums you’ve listened to? For me, it’s – Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions – Blue Rodeo’s Five Days in July –...
View ArticleHome taping didn’t kill the music industry, but it did change it forever
The cassette tape was introduced to the music-buying public 50 years ago last week. With one possible exception — its technological cousin, the eight track — it has gone down in history as the most...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones forever
Defying the odds and the pitfalls of life as rock gods, the Rolling Stones are touring again. Well, at least some of them are. The four blokes who will head out on the road this summer are not, as they...
View Article
