| ||||
Currently ReadingRecently Read | Today’s music moment comes about only because of today’s news. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961, the outstanding performance by the Bill Evans Trio, is one of 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry. In making the announcement, the Library of Congress said the five sets the trio performed on June 25, 1961, “are [...]            Tim June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Bill Evans, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostWhen the June 9, 1973, issue of Billboard magazine briefly reviewed Jimmy Buffett’s new release, it called it a “[g]ood soft rock collection.” Evidently, the reviewer didn’t get any clues from the album title or liner notes or pay any attention to the opening notes or other content of the album. Okay, there might be [...] Tim June 9th, 2010 | Tags: country music, Jimmy Buffett, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostEven though I probably wasn’t aware of the routine yet, Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s On First?” reminds me of buying The Guess Who’s American Woman. I called my best friend on the phone after getting the album and the conversation went something like: “I got the new album by The Guess Who.” “Who?” “The [...] Tim May 12th, 2010 | Tags: 1970s, American Woman, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, The Guess Who | Category: Music | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBy the most common definition of the term, The Ides of March were a one hit wonder band. Forty years ago this week their song “Vehicle” broke onto the Billboard charts, where it would peak at number two in late May 1970. Never again would the band hit the top 40. A popular Chicago-area group, [...] Tim April 14th, 2010 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostRandy Cohen, the NYT‘s “ethicist” caused a minor uproar when he opined last weekend that although downloading a pirated electronic version of a book you already own might be illegal, it is ethical. It led to blood boiling on the part of some publishers and authors while others weren’t all that concerned. I tend to [...] Tim April 8th, 2010 | Tags: Books, Music, technology | Category: A Reading Life, Music | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostGranted, it’s a compilation album. And it comes after both Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road. That said, Hey Jude, a/k/a The Beatles Again, was long my favorite Beatles album — and remains among my favorites 40 years after it was released. Some don’t consider this an “official” Beatles album because it is a compilation. Released [...] Tim February 24th, 2010 | Tags: Beatles, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWhat’s going on at the Vatican? Is Pope Benedict trying to be even more hip than John Paul II? On Sunday, its official newspaper published a list of the top 10 rock albums. Not surprisingly, none of the records on its list of Desert Island Discs is on my list. Even without that, the list [...] Tim February 16th, 2010 | Tags: Beatles, Bob Dylan, Music, Pink Floyd, Santana | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI need to get back in the habit of doing this series and thought I would do so with an approach a bit different than before. It is prompted by a statistic I came across in the last couple weeks. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “people tend to most prefer musical [...] Tim February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWith Springsteen and Dylan both releasing new CDs in 2009, you would think that would simplify my choices for album of the year. But Working on a Dream ranks as a below average Springsteen release and I’m enough of a Grinch that even Dylan doesn’t make me want to buy a CD of Christmas songs. [...] Tim December 28th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThere’s a certain rhythm and inner warmth when you see an old friend after a number of years. While I’ve never spoken to Leo Kottke in my life, seeing him perform Thursday night at the Orpheum Theater had that feel. I first became acquainted with Kottke in the mid-70s through his albums Greenhouse, Ice Water, [...] Tim November 20th, 2009 | Tags: Leo Kottke, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
Copyright © 2012 A Progressive on the Prairie - All Rights Reserved | ||||
