It wasn’t until we owned our first house that Janet and I felt grown up enough to host a New Year’s Eve party.
Until then, we were out at the bars with all the other amateurs on New Year’s Eve. We were young enough that New Year’s Eve was essentially one big high school or college [...]
Sleepy LaBeef, national treasure, is a man of the world, and a worldly man.
Tonight’s cut was recorded in England and released by a German label.
Of course, good music knows no boundaries.
Tonight, Sleepy covers a tune written and originally performed by Jimmy Reed, an electric bluesman from Mississippi. “Shame, Shame, Shame,” released in 1963, was Reed’s [...]
I don’t know about you, but I read the obits every day. In my local paper, in the papers from the towns in which I grew up, in the Los Angeles Times, which writes some of the best obits.
The stories of the lives of people well known and little known are equally fascinating.
These are some [...]
This is what our neighborhood looked like late this afternoon, after a day of steady snow.
It also is what my first girlfriend’s neighborhood looked like about this time, shortly after Christmas 1974.
Just before Thanksgiving of that year, our senior year in high school, my friend Joe started seeing Teri, who went to another school [...]
As promised, here’s the recap of all the songs posted in our “Three under the tree” series. The tunes will remain available for the rest of the year, then will come down on or about Jan. 1.
Thanks to all who visited. We set all kinds of records as we listened to all kinds of Christmas [...]
