I’ve long fancied myself a reviewer of albums and not individual songs. But times change, and resources at my disposal have necessitated my acquiring more…
One at a Time
Author: Tom Orr
Tom Orr is a California-based writer whose talent and mental stability are of an equally questionable nature. His hobbies include ignoring trends, striking dramatic poses in front of his ever-tolerant wife and watching helplessly as his kids surpass him in all desirable traits.
Reggae Rediscoveries
Reggae was the music that opened up my ears to the wider world of sounds rife for exploring, and I always savor any reminder of…
Pleasure as Usual
I’ve managed to accept the fact that padded envelopes containing CDs are likely never going to drop through my front door with the regularity they…
Left La La Land, Loved Loulé. My time at the 2022 Festival Med in Portugal
Portugal. I’d seen it on the maps I loved looking at when I was a kid. There it was, all but smothered by Spain on…
Easing Back Into It
The above title is disingenuous at the very least. Count me among those who don’t feel fully informed as to the “it” being eased back…
Brazilian Night Magic in the City of Angels
Marisa Monte at Royce Hall, University of California Los Angeles, March 27, 2022 Perhaps because I was so very excited about the reason I was…
A Year, an Album, Some Musings and a Song
I regretted not being able to furnish a proper Top Ten List with which to end 2021. And that’s as fine a point as there…
In the Good Old New Summertime
Summertime is in full swing. And this being a summer like no other, what with the planet now presumably on the rebound from the virus…
Mending Through Music
The global pandemic (which is what I most often hear it called) has, at the least, changed the plans of many and at the most…
Reconsideration in the Face of Tumult
As I’ve made clear in certain previous scribing, my preference is, was and always will be music that is traditional or very nearly so. It…