The Man Who Improved Music: An Appreciation of Norio Ohga
Sean MurphyDepending on how old you are, the iconic image above may mean different things. If you are young enough that digital files have been the primary way you've experienced music…
Looking Into The Sun*
(March, 2000) I look down at my mother as she lay dying. It was worse than I expected. (You don’t expect anything; you worry and fear and anticipate and dread…
2010: Time To Die (Part One: January-June)
2010: In pace requiescat! We almost made it through January without a major loss, but then, during the darkest and coldest evenings we got word that the reclusive and curmudgeonly…
My Kind of Christmas Music, Revisited
Tchaikovsky Corelli Bach John Fahey The Who Chuck Berry a three-fer from Jethro Tull! Sonny Boy The Godfather Donny Satchmo Ella! (An embarrassment of riches here, here,…
The Problem With The Homeless Problem
Who was he? I think the same question each time I see him (every day: the same man in the same spot, holding the same sign that tells everyone who…
Jethro Tull: Stand Up (Expanded Collector’s Edition)
The first bit of good news regarding this “collector’s edition” of Stand Up is that you don’t need it. The second bit of good news is that for the most…
For J.D. Salinger, Jethro Tull and Me
She nodded. "Make it extraordinarily squalid and moving," she suggested. "Are you at all acquainted with squalor?" I said not exactly but that I was getting better acquainted with it,…
A Kinder, Gentler Jethro Tull
Meanwhile back in the year…1978? It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. The progressive rock monolith (immortalized, or infamous, from the cover of Emerson, Lake…
My Kind of Christmas Music
Tchaikovsky Corelli Bach John Fahey The Who Chuck Berry a two-fer from Jethro Tull! The Godfather The Boss Satchmo Ella! (An embarrassment of riches here, here, and here)…
Weekend Fun with the Cellphone Cam…
Kelpie!! If that were at all visible, you'd clearly see the fox, mere feet away from my car as I pulled off the Dulles Greenway (I thought foxes were nocturnal,…