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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Pristine. That may be the only way to describe the sound quality of Steely Dan’s Aja. When you consider that the album was released 32 years ago today, it says a lot for what was achieved. I know Steely Dan gets a lot of disrespect from some quarters. Their music — at least their last [...]            Tim September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz-rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Steely Dan | Category: Music | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostUsually, I try to use album releases and recording sessions as the basis for these features. But something struck we when I realized that September 15 was the anniversary of the death of jazz pianist Bill Evans. When he died in 1980, he was barely 51. That’s what struck me. With my birthday this week, [...] Tim September 16th, 2009 | Tags: Bill Evans, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostMy definition of “old soul” differs slightly from the more common usage. To me, an old soul is someone who, musically or otherwise, grasps and is able to express the ethos of those who are a decade or more older. Any number of the tunes on Rockin’ the Suburbs make it plain Ben Folds is [...] Tim September 9th, 2009 | Tags: Ben Folds, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostLast week, I mentioned that following Led Zeppelin’s 1973 album, my musical interests were changing. I wrote that wholly unaware of the subject of this week’s Midweek Music Moment. By chance, it reveals just how much those interests changed over the course of a couple years. On August 31, 1973, Leon Russell released Hank Wilson’s [...] Tim September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: country music, Leon Russell, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostI grew up with Led Zeppelin. I even remember standing in a music store in the Twin Cities in about 1970 listening to “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin II speed around me on the latest technological breakthrough, quadraphonic stereo. (Who’d a thunk it would take home theater setups before that concept really took hold.) [...] Tim August 26th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThirty-seven years ago hard-core Chicago fans like me thought the rest of the county had finally caught on. In retrospect, what we were seeing was actually the beginning of a new and different path, one that would lead some of us from the band. On August 19, 1972, Chicago V became the number one album [...] Tim August 19th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Terry Kath | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostYou have to be of a certain era for the name Bill Chase to mean much. And it actually could mean something to you in two different contexts. Yet both contexts have an untimely limit. Bill Chase died in a plane crash on August 9, 1974, near Jackson, Minn.. One context is a pure jazz [...] Tim August 12th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, jazz-rock, Midweek Music Moment | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBob Dylan took only six days to record Highway 61 Revisited, the last being August 4, 1965. What did he accomplish in those six days? Well, the album itself ranked fourth in Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The opening track, “Like A Rolling Stone,” tops the magazine’s list of [...] Tim August 5th, 2009 | Tags: Bob Dylan, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWe didn’t realize it at the time but one of them there paradigm shifts occurred in music on August 1, 1971. That afternoon and evening, more than two dozen famous and not so famous musicians performed at two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden. Gathered by George Harrison, the performances were benefit concerts for [...] Tim July 29th, 2009 | Tags: Bob Dylan, classic rock, George Harrison, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSo the opening tune on a CD makes clear it’s a guitar band that knows how to use power chords. You grab the CD box to see who’s playing what and something jumps out at you — electric banjo. What? A pop rock band with an electric banjo? Well, that’s just part of the eclectic [...] Tim July 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock, The Uninvited | 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.  | ||
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