by Charles Norman | Feb 21, 2020 | Song of the Day
The Soods – Hard To Conceal Eons ago, during the Obama Administration, I stood in the checkout line of a CVS drugstore in a small Georgia town whose most thriving industry, as far as I could tell, was the selling of title loans. The woman in front of me, with a...
by Charles Norman | Feb 20, 2020 | Song of the Day
Steven Lipsticks and His Magic Band – Home There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer I’m not chewing it, sir. It’s chewing me. — John Steinbeck, The Affair at 7, Rue de M– I do what I can to...
by Charles Norman | Feb 17, 2020 | Song of the Day
BLÜM – Amends How many times has this scene, or a variation on it, flickered across a movie screen or been streamed onto the flat face of your favorite device… Someone seeking revenge and bearing a deadly weapon leaps out of the shadows toward another...
by Charles Norman | Feb 14, 2020 | Song of the Day
Summerooms – Pull Apart Rachel’s departure was meant to be final. She had left me twice before – the second time, we divorced and then remarried – and I watched her go each time with a feeling that was far from happy, but also with that renewal of...
by Charles Norman | Feb 12, 2020 | Song of the Day
Matthew Barton – Orchid I opened the gate and they stopped, turning. I was trying to say, and I caught her, trying to say, and she screamed and I was trying to say and trying and the bright shapes began to stop and I tried to get out. I tried to get it off of my...
