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Cover Me is the name of an album we received a while ago from two time vets of the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival, Jimi and the Band of Souls. It is a collection of songs written by others but interpreted by the Band of Souls. It just so happens that it is also the […]
Ever hear of Peggy James? I am willing to bet after her new album Nothing In Between drops in late June, she won’t be such a well kept secret. James is a Milwaukee singer/songwriter who has opened for the likes of Iris Dement, da BoDeans, and Salt Creek. The album, her fourth, was produced, engineered, […]
In December of 2016, I almost subscribed to Classic Rock Magazine. I found myself buying a copy whenever they weren’t sold out at the bookstore, so it seemed the logical thing to do would be to save a few bucks and subscribe. I cued up the TeamRock website and was met with an announcement […]
Perhaps you have seen the cover of the album Goodnight Vienna. It pays homage to the 1951 Sci-fi classic movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. There in the doorway of the prototypical 1950’s flying saucer stands the nine-foot tall robot Gort. Next to him, with helmet tucked under the arm of his silvery […]
We always equated the beginning of the next school year with the start up of marching band in August. The summer after my junior year, we had made plans to march in the Marquette Fourth of July parade as a prelude to taking a band trip to march in two parades at the Traverse […]
In the interest of brevity, I decided to not use “To solo or not to solo” as the title of this FTV. Reading Phil Collins’ memoir “Not Dead Yet” got me thinking about all the drummers I have had the pleasure to hear over the years. Listening to various types of music means one […]
Greetings – Just got the newest PLAYING for CHANGE CD – while we don’t normally push listeners and readers into causes, this is one that we can’t help but wave the flag for. If you caught one of the first versions of this concept (Stand By Me was the first one I recall seeing some […]
David Fitzpatrick’s new album Parachutes in Hurricanes is the latest disk to make its way north from Milwaukee via Gary Tanin’s Daystorm Records. I was only able to give it a quick run through when Gary first sent it our way to preview and that is a poor way to listen to a new […]
According to his friend John Byrne, Gerry Rafferty, “Went through hell and arrived at his final destination with a sense of peace and fulfilment, but what a journey.” Occasional singing partner Barbara Dickson said, “He liked having money and status, and why shouldn’t he have done it? He had a image of himself being […]
For some strange reason, I can’t for the life of me pass up a book or an article about a fellow drummer. The music trade magazines specifically aimed at drummers (Drummers World, Modern Drummer) will occasionally catch my eye, but after beating the skins for more than a half century, a lot of their […]