The Selected Ballads

I'm still in the process of paring down a very long "long list" of the best shows I saw in 2010, so as a sort of preview and i...

One newsman's journey into darkness and despair on board a Philadelphia-bound Amtrak train ( via The Awl). Here's a representati...

I may have mentioned this before, and I may mention it again, but here is one of the greatest, most soulful vocal performances of all time, ...

Here is a good, short summing up of an excellent book I read recently.  My own attempt to write a good, short summing up of The Golden Age ...

So, I recently signed up for Phil Schaap 's jazz e-newsletter, which so far has turned out to be mostly lists of things he has for sale ...

You know that thing where you turn off the sound on The Wizard of Oz and play Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack?  And if you start i...

Sometimes when I (on rare occasions) hear something from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on the radio, one part of me enjoys the music while ...