Do you like good music? Huh, that sweet soul music Just as long as it’s swinging Oh yeah Oh yeah Peter Guralnick is arguably the most important, best writer we have on American roots and soul music. He wrote the two-volume series on Elvis Presley’s … Continue reading Book Review – Sweet Soul Music – Peter Guralnick
βIβm really into old David Bowie stuff for what it was, Iβm really into Led Zeppelin or whatever. But Iβm not going to have a band that tries to sound like that because itβs been done. I never liked the Beatles. If youβre going to … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Nine Inch Nails
Wherein I spin a couple of new tunes for your dining and dancing pleasure….. Early last year I did a post on Graham Parker. In that post, I mentioned that Parker had secured a major record deal with Phonogram records after Brinsley Schwarz manager Dave … Continue reading New Music Revue – 9/27/21
Back in the ’70s, the No Nukes movement was alive and well (and yours truly even attended some protests.) I did not go to this concert but I remember the event well. And my first experience of the E Street Band was in this timeframe, … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen – The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts To Be Released
(Pictured – ME’s Music Vault) Wherein I periodically send our team into the vault to find tunes that ME has featured over the years and which he (and his minions) would not like the world to completely forget …. Fleetwood Mac is a band I … Continue reading From the Vault – Vol 7
I always liked Thin Lizzy but when they were popular I would not have told you they were one of my favorite bands. Now that I go back and listen, I say to myself, what the fuck was I thinking? I enjoyed them on the … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Thin Lizzy
“This is a story of drug abuse” – Chrissie Hynde Reckless – Marked by lack of proper caution:Β careless of consequences – Irresponsible That’s the dictionary definition of the word. And I guess that that word pretty much sums up Chrissie Hynde’s life, at least through … Continue reading Book Review – Reckless: My Life as a Pretender – Chrissie Hynde
One of my very first posts ever was in late 2015 (my how time flies) and it was on the subject of virtuoso jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. As I said in that post, “What I like about Metheny is that he is very varied in … Continue reading Featured Album – Bright Size Life – Pat Metheny
βCharlieΒ Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically.” – Keith Richards. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts died at the age of 80 on August 24, 2021, five days ago as I write this. Lest ye think that somehow the Music Enthusiast missed … Continue reading An ME Tribute to Charlie Watts
Wherein I provide three versions of a song to see how it can be (sometimes radically) reinterpreted …. Even though I wrote a series about Ray Charles at the end of last year, I’d somehow gotten it into my head that Willie Nelson wrote this … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – Hard Times
