Month: November 2020

We’re almost there. Just December to get through. Did anyone predict that 2020 would be so long and drawn out? For me, May was the longest month of the year. It was then that we knew that COVID-19 was going to affect us long-term and wouldn’t just go away when the weather got warm. Seemed…

Can we have a best of in 2020? Is that possible in this year? Of course, I never label things as such – I think about it more as stuff I like. In 2020, there was more good music than I thought would be the case. There were few standouts or “classics” that were released…

On this Thanksgiving week, Sly Stone says: Oh, Sunday morning, I forgot my prayerI should have been happy, I still be thereSomething could have come and taken me awayBut the mainman felt Sly should be here another day That’s why I got to be thankful, yeah, yeahI gotta be thoughtfulHey, hey, hey, oh, thankful, thank…

We raked leaves in October. The ground was pretty bare afterward. This weekend we’re raking leaves. The ground is full of leaves – oak leaves. Why do oak trees hold their leaves after the maple and other trees have all lost theirs? Just to make us rake leaves multiple times? I’m not a big acorn…

I got nothing – what do you have? Today’s podcast focuses on nothing, with lots of something great artists, like Van Morrison, Small Faces, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, the Alley Cats, Roky Erickson, Guided by Voices, Pavement, Tommy Keene, Dum Dum Girls, the Heavy, the Specials, the Del Fuegos, the Flirtations, Sade, and Sinead O’Connor.…

That’s right – temperatures in the 70’s this weekend. Happens every November, doesn’t it? It’s supposed to stay warm through Veteran’s Day. Totally normal. Just as I was getting used to scraping the ice off my car off in the morning. We’ve got a new President in the United States. He’ll bring a sense of…

Got some more jazz for you today. We need a jazz break today, I think. Something to take us out of the world for a bit. This is a mix of classic and new jazz, with most of the hard edges taken off. So listen to John Zorn, Artemis, the Christian McBride Big Band, Bobby…

November..sigh. Did we ever think that we’d make it to November? The “summer to remember” was not memorable for the right reasons. We’re now heading into a “winter to remember.” Probably as memorable (and miserable) as summer was. Let’s do our best and be careful out there. There was snow in the Boston area on…