Posts by Alby

With apologies to El Som, I actually hear other new music once in a while, though not nearly so much as he does because I'm so technologically inept. I'm so…

Something special for Valentine's Day: A song Eric Stewart wrote because his wife complained that he rarely told her he loved her."I had this crazy idea in my mind that…

The Senate Republican caucus could adopt this as a theme song, but their voices wouldn't -- ahem -- do it justice. James Taylor's wrote this bittersweet lullaby for his then-girlfriend…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona There were few more polarizing figures in jazz than Chick Corea, who died Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. But there was never any…

Snow has persisted on the ground for more than a week now, something that's noticeable is you walk a dog every day. Hence this tune, an example of Frank Zappa's…

Mary Wilson, the Supreme who stuck it out until the end, died yesterday at 76. In the group's early days, all three Supremes took turns singing lead. Wilson's deeper, grittier…

Gotta say, this new Biden administration and the invigorated Democratic Congress has far outstripped every expectation I had coming out of Trump's Reign of Error. The change in the mood…