THE BACKGROUND: My good friend Alan is known for his party mixes. For his 40th birthday, the party favors weren’t a mug or a shot glass, but rather a carefully constructed cd mix that adhered to specific guidelines and rules. Let’s just say that a gauntlet was thrown down at that moment. I drove home [...]
Uptown Lights aka… http://www.myspace.com/uptownlights … and I quote: “Armed with a setlist featuring the songs of their heroes, like O.V. Wright, Joe Tex, the Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and many, many more, this show is not to be missed… ” If I could get on a plane, I would. Dulli singing Otis? Kill me [...]
It’s the night before Thanksgiving, and instead of being at home, baking pecan pies, or something, I’m walking around a dark neighborhood in South Philly. Inexplicably, someone is out washing their car… at 7:45pm. I confirm directions and the car washer wishes me Happy Thanksgiving. There, just past an old brick church is the street [...]
A quote from a friend, summarizing a recent Time Magazine review of the new Eric Clapton record: For example, they say “the only genuine emotion Clapton musters is reverence,” and when EC sings the line ‘There’s a hellhound on my trail’ “you wonder if the hound’s name is Patches.”
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