I just created an iTunes playlist titled “Frontwomen in Rock” inspired by Samantha Fish’s recent live performance in Ft. Lauderdale, where she was opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd. But it’s a very small playlist because I have narrow criteria: So I’m not thinking of your usual frontwomen — singer only, or singer and rhythm orContinue reading “Frontwomen in Rock”
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Roger Waters, Live at the Amway Center 8-25-22
Writing about Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, to me, isn’t just writing about music. It’s writing political autobiography. Pink Floyd’s Animals was released in 1977. I was thirteen years old that year and had been introduced to Elton John, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Who, but didn’t catch up to Pink Floyd forContinue reading “Roger Waters, Live at the Amway Center 8-25-22”
The Beatles, Get Back
The first really magical moment, when everyone was feeling the power of the music, was Paul’s first performance of “Let It Be.”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 