Category: Music

Gary Lewis is as nice a guy as his dad wasn’t. Here’s a favorite song from Gary’s album Listen! that I first heard on Andrew Sandoval’s Come to the Sunshine podcast.

After 18 months The Rolling Stones in Mono set is still available for free listening on YouTube and, yes, it’s official.

Old habits never die, and I still like to play DJ.

A Peruvian folk song adapted by Paul Simon. I was in the ninth grade when this was a single on the radio. Simon was the creative force, but for singing he had to occasionally bow to Garfunkel’s superior ability.

Seven years later I was a radio DJ and this record was in regular rotation at the station where I worked. For all of the attention that was given to blonde Agnetha, Anni-Frid has always been my favorite.

Separated from Jeff Lynne and ELO, Roy Wood’s solo album Boulders, including some tracks from the Move years. The album should have been called “Gems.”

What hath J.R.R. Tolkien wrought? Forsooth, Prog Rock!

Before Jimmy Page had Robert Plant fronting Led Zeppelin, his former Yardbirds bandmate Jeff Beck had Rod Stewart.