Roxies Hart
Prompted by the Fosse/Verdon eight-parter, I’ve been following Chicago in its many manifestations backward into the past. Among...
Melodious Veep
You know the song “All in the Game”? (“Many a tear has to fall/But it’s all in the...
Gershwin Hatches the Egg
Pick hits from my program last week: In 1924, three weeks before he premiered Rhapsody in Blue and...
Standing in the Shadows of Stax
Last week I came upon two major examples of The Song Behind the Song. Like so many things,...
Judy Judy
Among the great women folk singers of the early to mid Sixties, Joan and Judy (Baez and Collins)...
Iron Womb
Last week I was putting together a set of songs for my show (Dog’s Breakfast, Monday mornings, 5-6:30...
Ondrej Goes to Hollywood
Ondrej Havelka and His Melody Makers, whose music I’ve featured on-air a couple of times, are like Max...
South America Stole Our Name #2
Randy Newman has a new album out, Dark Matter, his first in nine years. One cut that especially struck...
Too Hip for the Room
At the end of the last post I referred to Harry “the Hipster” Gibson, and once he’s onstage...
Smokin’ Peggy Lee
Late in her life I saw Peggy Lee perform at a club in New York. She was chair-bound,...
Try a Little Tenderness or I’ll Kill You
Toward the end of my radio show last night I went into a death spiral with Spotify and...