Page 3 – and the Garden of Earthly Delights

Children of the Corn

Not long ago a new book of mine, Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon, arrived on little...

I discover I’m mentioned in Adam Gopnik’s latest memoir, At the Stranger’s Gate, when he describes going to...

Pick hits from my program last week: In 1924, three weeks before he premiered Rhapsody in Blue and...

Last week I came upon two major examples of The Song Behind the Song. Like so many things,...

Among the great women folk singers of the early to mid Sixties, Joan and Judy (Baez and Collins)...

Last week being pledge-drive time at the station (wmpg.org, it’s never too late) I brought back some old...

Last week I was putting together a set of songs for my show (Dog’s Breakfast, Monday mornings, 5-6:30...

Ondrej Havelka and His Melody Makers, whose music I’ve featured on-air a couple of times, are like Max...

In the early 1960s an album called “The First Family” appeared, comedy bits making fun of the Kennedy...

I’m presently wrestling with Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a fact I’m sharing because I came across a mention...

Randy Newman has a new album out, Dark Matter, his first in nine years. One cut that especially struck...

On last night’s show I played the title cut from Nina Simone’s debut album, Little Girl Blue (1958). It’s...