A couple of weeks ago I sat down and settled in to watch the 1968 concert film Monterey Pop by D.A. Pennebaker that I had…
At A Loss
Category: Editorials
Is the United States Losing Its Cool?
The musical landscape of American music overflows with cool. From Blind Lemon Jefferson to Woody Guthrie, from Ella Fitzgerald to Hank Williams, from Miles Davis…
Is it music or are we just being played?
One day while muscling a load of wet laundry into the dryer I caught the strains of some sadistically sappy music coming from the next…
The Woman Who Stared at Sheep … And the Sheep Stared Back
All right, my little chipmunks let me tell you a story… Once upon a time there was this performance artist and she cooked up a…
Even More Dumbing Down, the Dwindling Funding for the Arts
Several years ago World Music Central ran an editorial titled Dumbing Down, the Dwindling Funding for the Arts. This article sparked some interest and I…
Horrid Swell of Sad Music
Recently I settled myself down to watch the PBS program Nature. This particular documentary was entitled “Lobo, The Wolf That Changed America.” Telling the story…
No Honor in Cheating Musicians
Reading several news sites every day, I can usually find at least one interesting music-related story. Although most of the music headlines are taken up…
Not My Song
Given half a chance most musicians out there in the big, wide musical nebula would give their right arm to have one of their songs…
Go Where the Gig Is
In late December I drew the short straw and got the unhappy task of collecting the names and biographies for the Music World Obituaries 2007…
Silencing the Drums
My husband and I were in the midst of one of those lazy breakfasts listening to the radio when a story caught my attention. The…