I feel like I’ve only heard Gary Wright’s music on the radio a handful of times. Actually I think I’ve probably heard it used more often in movies than on the radio. Regardless of the medium, there’s only one song of his that ever seems to get played, the song “Dream Weaver.” Last year, however, …
I don’t know if all high schools did this, but when the seniors graduated at mine, the top 10 academic juniors would act as ushers for the outgoing class’s graduation ceremony. A buddy of mine and I were two of these juniors. The week of graduation, instead of going to class, we helped set up …
95.5 KLOS, a radio station based here in Los Angeles, has a long-running program on Sunday mornings called Breakfast With The Beatles. It’s not a show I listen to every week, but I’ll usually catch some of it if I’m running errands or otherwise out and about, as I found myself earlier today. One person …
Today marks 15 years to the day that I started at my current job. Coincidentally as well, this year’s dates and days of the week exactly match the day I left Michigan (Monday, April 25, 2005), driving my little Hyundai Accent across the country with my buddy Brian, and dropped anchor in San Diego, California …
One of my favorite covers of a song is The Everly Brothers doing this tune by Merle Haggard on their album Roots. As I’ve mentioned previously with a couple of other songs, the cover version was actually my first introduction to the song as a whole. I had a friend whose cousin was Merle Haggard …
Management for the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio sent out an email with some unfortunate news yesterday. The mother of their guitarist had passed away, and, understandably, they would be canceling some of their upcoming shows. I thought about their albums I have, their cover of “Careless Whisper” being one of the first songs that came …
I wasn’t in San Diego for very long before I moved to Los Angeles, maybe about a year. Between having limited funds and trying to find some kind of work to keep me in California for the long haul, there weren’t a lot of opportunities to see live shows in San Diego. I did manage …
I cannot get enough of this song by Viagra Boys lately. Over the weekend, I probably listened to it about 20 times. My buddy Rene just introduced me to the band a couple of weeks ago, so I’m still in the process of exploring their catalog to see if there is more that I like. …
While I was listening to some music this past weekend, a song started playing that had a lot of bass drum pedal squeaks. It’s funny how many songs from back in the day have this noise. My understanding is that, in many of these cases, the known culprit is a particular pedal by Ludwig called …
For as much time as I’ve spent listening to music throughout my life, one thing I’ve learned is that there’s always plenty of stuff out there to discover, some of which may be older songs that are just simply new to me. This is one of the advantages my job affords me, listening to albums …