Copper
On Words In Music
I was trying to figure out when and where I first tried my hand at writing lyrics. The first time that I can still remember, they were written on the...
I Was Watching You
One of the things that happens to musicians as we evolve is that we say more and more with less and less. On the Annie Stela sessions for Capitol that occurred around...
Leon
2016 has been a helluva year. You know: the list of musicians and music-related people who have passed, in any one year, would be too much; David Bowie, Paul Kantner, George Martin, Prince, all of...
Fretting About Fretboards
CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, has made a large impact on a lot of industries, and it’s meant to. For one...
The Sound Your Head Makes When It Hits the Table
Enough about the Sheryl Crow record. Well, no — but yes. I could probably write quite a bit more about it, and the conflicts around it, but it was very...
The Tuesday Night Music Club
Sometime during the summer of 1992 I got a call from Bill Bottrell. It had been a few months since we had talked, during which time he’d been working on...
Thoughts On Triage
(As mentioned in the last issue, David Baerwald’s Triage was a remarkable work, alternately rageful and lyrical in its view of the America of 1992. Baerwald’s sardonic view of LA had first been heard...
What Is a Song?
Warning: more Beatles content. Of course, they’re many people’s favorite band (including, obviously, mine), so it’s not a surprise, but there happen to be a number of Beatle-related events around...