Sometimes an album seems so unique that you can’t imagine anything else quite like it. Sometimes you’re wrong. After living with guitarist Pat Metheny’s 1979 recording New Chautauqua for decades as one of my favorite albums and thinking it created an aura, a mood, that no other artist had really explored, I recently (thanks to…
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Ron Korb – “Asia Beauty”
I recently wrote a profile for a local magazine on Canadian flutist Ron Korb. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of him before, but after listening to some of his works the last few months, I’m glad I was introduced to his music. Korb has an extensive discography, has shared the stage with everyone from…
Walter Becker and an Alternate Steely Dan
Memories can be faulty things. With the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker a few days ago, I was thinking back to the one time I saw Steely Dan in concert. It was on the 1996 tour (dubbed the “Art Crimes” tour by the band) at the USF Sundome in Tampa, FL. I could…
Four Reissues You Need to Hear!
Well, okay, you don’t really need to hear them. Don’t you hate those kinds of click bait headlines? That kind’s not as bad as something like “The Ten Best Reissues of 2017 – I Couldn’t Believe #3!” That type of click bait headline makes me want to stop reading whatever it is I’m reading, unsubscribe…
Bruce Springsteen and Nihilistic Vase Smashing
Even the most professional and assured musicians have goofy moments from their early years. Though Bruce Springsteen is one of the most focused and driven artists in the history of rock music, teenage Bruce was still soaking it all in and trying to find his own musical identity, and sometimes…um, not quite succeeding, as he…
Painting Penguins with Kate Bush
I was listening to Kate Bush’s bizarre 1982 track “Leave It Open” the other day. There’s an ending vocal passage (starting at 2:34) that’s hard to decipher. When I first heard the song years ago, I thought she was singing “Leave it open / Let us in,” but I later found out it’s “We let…
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