As I continue to revisit albums that are gathering dust in my music collection, we come to the “O” section of the shelf: all of four CDs wide. Oddly enough, two of them are side projects — recorded while members were on vacation from much more famous groups. Still more oddly, both are connected to … More Albums A to Z: On Golden Smog
If you ask a couple of my friends, they’ll snicker that I’m clueless about Eighties pop culture. And it’s true, to a point: I haven’t watched most of the John Hughes oeuvre, and while I have probably two dozen albums in my CD collection that were released during the decade, only two were hugely popular … More Albums A to Z: Hang Time
Last Tuesday the Minneapolis band known as the Jayhawks released their first album since 2003 (and their first with founder Mark Olson since the mid-1990s), leading me to take a break from typical Pietist Schoolman topics and propose the ten Jayhawks’ songs that would best introduce the band to a newbie. The Jayhawks are perhaps … More Radio Kings: Wilco
Your music fills my car Your voice breaks every time I’m still wonderin’ If I know who you are I hang on every line One day near the end of my time at the College of William and Mary, I tagged along with my friends Mark and Vicki to do some music shopping in Norfolk, … More Radio Kings: The Jayhawks
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