by Charles Norman | Dec 15, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Warm Months” does not begin. The listener enters the room, slightly late as usual, the Green Line bus having been impeded by a thrice-dented gypsy cab. The song is already wafting through the speakers, a pair of plucked strings sketching alternating chords. Dog Mom...
by Charles Norman | Dec 7, 2018 | Song of the Day
The Great American Road Trip was conceived as a thing of barren majesty. Two fantastic-looking guys barreling down a completely empty highway in an enormous convertible, flanked on each side by an endless landscape. The color of the convertible is unknown since our...
by Charles Norman | Dec 6, 2018 | Song of the Day
Today in history marks 294 days since the inception of our Song of the Day feature. During that span, we made 162 posts, each featuring a song by an excellent, under-recognized musician. Our original intent was to compose a few well-written paragraphs each day about a...
by Charles Norman | Nov 27, 2018 | Song of the Day
The chasm between what we have and what we want has loomed large in the human experience since that eons-ago moment when Thag Jones gazed from the mouth of his cave at the distant woolly mammoth and measured his desire to transform the creature into a rump roast of...
by Charles Norman | Nov 24, 2018 | Song of the Day
I’ve told this story before and I’m sure I’ll tell it again. And when I’m an old man and can’t remember what I said two minutes ago I’ll probably tell it again and again and again until someone says “Wheel Uncle Raccoon off...
