The lovely long shot at the start of 45 Years (2015) shows Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) walking her Alsatian in early spring fog along a lane bordered by a line…
I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan. No, not his music though cuts come up on my playlists. But his Theme Time Radio Hour which I catch on…
I admire singers who take other people’s songs and make them their own. Most lack the empathy to express the emotion in the words they may sing very well. In…
Until the show ended abruptly in early 2010, I listened regularly to Barnes Newberry’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ on WUMB in Boston. I have mourned its loss. But today…
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band made some quite good albums in the early 1970s. Contrary to their name, the band did clean California-style country rock. Their greatest hit was Jerry…