It’s 6 o’clock in the morning and I’m standing in a foot of snow. It’s dark, cold, and windy, and while I try to fight my way through the blowing snow with an oversized barn shovel, I remember that I stood in this exact same spot a few short monthsRead More

If you jettison the world politics of the incident of 9/11, you’re left with the haunting memories of many things You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’

Probably the most rock-oriented track from Metheny’s early catalog (we’ll have to wait for Zero Tolerance For Silence or Imaginary Day to hear something like this again), “American Garage” definitely had me cranking up the volume. You May Also Like: Why Pat Metheny’s ‘New Chautauqua’ Still Provides an Important RefugeRead More

When I heard that Jim Hall had died I thought, “Shoot, I was hoping he was gonna live till the ripe old age of…” Of course, I then realized that he had lived that long. You May Also Like: Daniel Carter, William Parker, Matthew Shipp – Seraphic Light, Live atRead More

The story of the Nashboro record label shines a light at the intersection of music, commerce and faith. You May Also Like: Ron Miles – ‘Rainbow Sign’ (2020) Robert Cray – ‘That’s What I Heard’ (2020) Royal Southern Brotherhood – The Royal Gospel (2016)

Shortwave number stations? WTF is that?! And why would anybody want recordings of them?!! The first part is easy to answer. The second part? Hmmm…let me think on it. You May Also Like: Days Between Stations – ‘Giants’ (2020)

I always think of music born from culture as being a purely organic thing. Say, the country blues of the American south; the chants of Tibet; the music of the Sufis. But here we have a counterexample You May Also Like: No related posts.

I can’t honestly remember if I had expectations of Bruce’s reactions to the events of September 11, 2001. While many Americans views had hardened into position, mine had yet to take shape. You May Also Like: Reevaluating Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle’ Richard Turgeon,Read More

Pat Metheny likes to say that the group has a hard time with song titles. They may be hashing out a new composition and the working title will be something like “New thing in E-flat” You May Also Like: Pat Metheny, “You Are” from ‘From This Place’ (2019): One TrackRead More

I look back at what went on in the 1990s and it seems like a completely different world. An impossible world. You May Also Like: Ross Hammond and Jay Nair – ‘Hope’ (2020) Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – ‘Hope’ (2021) Seth Walker – ‘I Hope I Know’ (2022)