by Charles Norman | May 6, 2019 | Song of the Day
If you’ve been planning to blow out your speakers just one more time, but were waiting for the right song to come along and do the honor, I have good news: your wait is over. Dial up ‘Flowers’ by Farrow and the Peach Leaves and… Crank. It. Up....
by Charles Norman | May 1, 2019 | Song of the Day
Reborn by the Sunshine’s ‘Who I Am’ is honest country music. The modifier should remain unspoken; if it isn’t honest, it isn’t country. But these days the two words are connected by an ever-fraying bit of binders twine. I’m not...
by Charles Norman | Apr 29, 2019 | Song of the Day
All at once Jukes understood he would have to go.’Do you think she may?’ he screamed.But the wind devoured the reply, out of which Jukes heard only the one word, pronounced with great energy ‘…Always…’– from Typhoon, by Joseph...
by Charles Norman | Apr 27, 2019 | Song of the Day
From where I stood I watched them recede in the frame of the roadway, between the Moorish house and the Lombardy poplar. Then the little sedan boldly swung past the front truck and, free at last, spurted up the shining road, which one could make out narrowing to a...
by Charles Norman | Apr 25, 2019 | Off the Wall
And you may find yourself in a beautiful houseWith a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourselfWell, how did I get here?– Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime My father’s father, a lineman for the county who bought the farm years before I was recorded and...
