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March 2010

March 27, 2010

Songs about Vocation

As I mentioned, I've been doing a series of interviews on Issues, Etc., about the...

February 2010

February 27, 2010

The final testimony of Johnny Cash

The last posthumous album by Johnny Cash has just come out--that is, the last of...

February 22, 2010

How the Beatles increased health care costs

I am greatly intrigued by unintended consequences, odd connections, and strangely related events. In a...

February 12, 2010

Maddy Curtis update

Maddy Curtis, the 16-year-old from around here who became an "American Idol" contestant whom I...

February 01, 2010

The Maddy Curtis concert

Remember my blog post with video of Maddy Curtis, the 16-year-old American Idol contestant who...

February 01, 2010

The Grammy Awards

Taylor Swift took most of the country music Grammies. I can see that. The child...

January 2010

January 14, 2010

My favorite American Idol contestant so far

Has got to be Maddy Curtis, a 16 year-old in a family twelve kids, four...

January 11, 2010

Elvis as preacher/Preacher as Elvis

Elvis Presley would have turned 75 on January 8. His former wife said that if...

November 2009

November 13, 2009

Death of a church musician

Church musician Paul Manz died on October 28. An organ virtuoso and respected choral composer,...

November 02, 2009

The other 5,999,999,999

As I mentioned the other day, I have been listening to Slim Dusty, the iconic...

October 2009

October 23, 2009

What are you listening to?

As I drive to and from work, I've been listening to Sittin' On 80: 80...

October 15, 2009

Bach’s smackdown of Frederick the Great

I have just finished a book that I am going to count among my favorites...

September 2009

September 23, 2009

What's the appeal of bad writing?

Good discussion yesterday of Dan Brown's deadly prose. But this raises another question. Even though...

September 22, 2009

Preview the Bob Dylan Christmas album

We had talked about Bob Dylan's upcoming Christmas album. Here is the album cover with...

September 04, 2009

Suppressing talent for success

Music reviewer Dave McKenna puts his finger on an odd phenomenon that tells us a...

August 2009

August 28, 2009

Bob Dylan as the voice of your navigation device

Navigation device manufacturers are talking to Bob Dylan about using his voice to give the...

August 21, 2009

Like a complete unknown

If you see a suspicious looking old man wandering around your neighborhood in a hooded...

August 18, 2009

The Wizard of Waukesha

That's what they called Les Paul in Wisconsin, the man who invented the solid body...

August 07, 2009

Bob Dylan’s Christmas album

Virtually every recording artist does it eventually. Now Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album....

August 04, 2009

Mozart at 7 years old

A previously unknown composition by Mozart has been discovered, written when he was around 7...

August 03, 2009

Demise of the music industry

The New York Times on the woes of the music industry: According to data from...

July 2009

July 31, 2009

Teaching perfect pitch

A Japanese music teacher named Kazuko Eguchi has devised a way to teach children younger...

July 29, 2009

Death of an avant garde artist

The avant garde choreographer Merce Cunningham has died at the age of 90. He was...

July 21, 2009

Praise songs as sacraments and as mantras

Several years ago, there was a fascinating discussion of the use of "praise songs" in...

July 08, 2009

Michael Jackson’s comeback

Lisa de Moraes of The Washington Post reports on the media coverage of the Michael...

June 2009

June 26, 2009

The first known musical instrument

Archeologists have found a hollowed-out bird bone, into which was carved five finger holes and...

June 26, 2009

Death of the icons

Michael Jackson died. Also Farrah Fawcett. What can we say?

May 2009

May 22, 2009

Music as torture

Human rights activists are joining with musicians to ban the practice of playing loud rock...

May 20, 2009

The final vote for American Idol

I started chronicling this series, so I suppose we should discuss the final choice on...

April 2009

April 30, 2009

Bono’s confession of faith

Rock star Bono of U2 contrasts "grace" with "karma" and makes a forthright confession of...