I started thinking about the Grammys after I found out about the Dead’s upcoming lifetime achievement award, and couldn’t help recall this performance from the 2005 show, a tribute to Janis Joplin by Joss Stone and Melissa Etheridge. Wow. It was the first time I’d seen Joss Stone sing anything, and Melissa was making her… Read More the. best. ever.
It doesn’t seem like it was 10 years ago. The day was Aug. 9, 1995. The time, if I recall, was around 11 a.m. I had just come out of a meeting to discuss a story I had been working on. When I sat down at my desk, a musically-aware photographer we worked with came… Read More 1942-1995.
The beauty of a bar band is that on any given night, you can walk in, grab a seat in the back and for a cost of a few bottles of beer, you can see a performance that will change your life, the kind of thing that caused Jon Landau to start raving when he… Read More bovine.
The Wife and I just got our butts kicked down in Pittsburgh tonight. Widespread Panic is the real fucking deal, boys and girls. I can’t tell you what we heard — mostly because I don’t have a clue about what they play — but it was wicked and righteous … and I’m ready for more.
Uncle Crappy 