Apropos of Nothing

It's been a long time since I've gone down the Duke Ellington rabbit hole.  Last week, what sent me down was a tweet (a retweet, act...

  The first political science course I took in college (at American River College, here in the Sacramento area) was taught by a gentleman wh...

 Not a bad year at all. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Hom...

Jackson Browne earned his spot in the Hall of Fame a long time ago, so it's OK that his late-career albums fall short of the standards h...

There is a LOT going on in "Hard Drive."  It's got a definite Laurie Anderson feel to it, almost as if it were a lost track fr...

The music that Rhiannon Giddens has made on her last two albums with Francesco Turrisi cuts like a scythe, slashing through fields of grain....

Over the next few days, in preparation for posting my Top Ten Albums of 2021, I'll be posting some of my favorite songs of the year from...

And that bad boy in the middle now holds the place of honor previously occupied by the Technics Receiver. So yeah, I no longer have the abil...

  This bad boy served me well for close to 40 years, but it was well past the time to say farewell.  Little did I know that the frustrating ...

 2020 was the year that I made the transition from buying CDs (I've bought two this year) to listening to music almost exclusively via s...

1. Fleet Foxes - Shore .   Over the years I've toyed around with the concept of what I call "Autumn Albums."  Not necessarily ...

 A few years ago, one of my Christmas "stocking stuffers" was a coffee table book on the history of the NFL.  Cleverly titled ...

With the help of Spotify, there's no question that I listened to more new music this year than ever before.  On the one hand, that's...

"Either/Or" is enjoyable enough as music, but it's impossible to separate the album from the circumstances of the artist who...

When Greil Marcus reviewed The Belle Album for Rolling Stone in late 1977, he wrote "...we may someday look back on The Belle Album...

The point of this project is to write, at least a little bit, about a notable album from the past that I've never listened to all the ...