Category: Pop Music

Fishin’ Blues Part 1: Musical Hooks

“I’m a going fishin’, all the time, you can go fishin’ too You bet your life, sweet lovin’ wife I can catch more fish than you Many fishes bite if you got good bait Now here’s a little something I would like to relate Many fishes bite if ya got good bait…” Attributed to Taj…


Ten ’60s albums that changed everything

1.Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan) It’s soaked in what the master himself called “that wild mercury sound.” Reasons it’s stupendously great? “Visions of Johanna,” “Sad Eyed Lady,” “Just Like a Woman” – enough right there.  Oh yeah, and “Memphis Blues Again,” “I Want You,” “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”… 2. Blue (Joni Mitchell)* OK, it came…


Three Graces Part 3 – Vanessa Carlton

The first ten times I heard Vanessa Carlton I was not impressed. It was at the gym or surfing my car radio. She was clearly worked up about whatever it was she was singing about but expressed it with a voice that had a highschooler’s affectation. The kind of affectation that could get annoying, and…


Three Graces Part 2 – Jane Siberry

II. Queen Jane Approximately Jane Siberry, like Joni Mitchell, is from Canada.  From the mid eighties through the early nineties, I still scoured the radio dial looking for something, anything to inspire. From what I heard music was continuing its long slide begun in the ‘70’s. I was about to tune out for good.   If…


Three Graces Part 1 – Joni Mitchell

The Three Graces, Antonio Canova, The Hermitage I. Tangled up in Blue First there was Joni….


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