It’s strange. You could look at my earlier lists of my 140 or so favorite songs, or the one of the albums that meant the most to me and find little or no mention of this group. But for a couple of years in the late ’60s, they might just have been my favorite band. …
I suppose I ought to be a little embarrassed that I had never heard of Taylor Swift until 2015. It was February that year and my wife, my son and I went to a concert at Symphony Hall in Atlanta. The performer was Jackie Evancho, whose genre is called classical crossover. She was just 14 …
I don’t know how long it has been that I’ve been collecting music on iTunes to play on my computer or various portable devices. At least 15 years or so. I have what I guess was the biggest iPod, with a 160 gigabyte hard drive that seems to hold more than 20,000 songs and comedy …
MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC that takes up very little space Read More »
Once was the time — I think I was 15 — when I memorized the names of all 100 members of the United States Senate, from Alabama all the way to Wyoming. I knew the winners and losers of every presidential election all the way back to the beginning, and I probably knew the names …
SENATORS TO SINGERS TO CHAMPS, MEMORY IS A SERIOUS THING Read More »
