by Charles Norman | Jul 22, 2016 | Off the Wall
It’s summertime. Everyone here in Houston is indoors because it’s too @#$%& hot and humid to go outside unless it’s to immerse yourself in a body of water. I’ve heard a lot of music swirling through the house this week, so let’s go around the horn and find out to...
by Charles Norman | Jul 4, 2016 | Off the Wall
Happy Fourth of July! Today we celebrate the moment we cast off the Cloak of Oppression draped over us by our British Overlords. Had this momentous event not taken place, we would never have experienced The British Invasion. All of that great music that arrived in...
by Charles Norman | Jun 8, 2016 | Off the Wall
If you were alive in 1993, you heard and saw the Spin Doctors. My daughter – born on the anniversary of Billie Joe McAllister’s leap off the Tallahatchie Bridge – was seven months old when “Two Princes” was released, and she probably knows the song’s lyrics. Well, she...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2016 | Music
If you cranked up a television on a Saturday night in the early 70’s and flipped through the channels, you inevitably encountered a show called Hee Haw. And if you lingered there long enough, you beheld a strange and wondrous sight: two men, often standing in a barn...
by Charles Norman | Mar 24, 2016 | Features
“Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” – The almost-last words of Union General John Sedgwick before getting shot in the head Everyone can use a little Almost. The bullet almost missed General Sedgwick...
