At age 62, responding to music is still the way I process the world, the place I feel most in my element. Evidently it's the same for these musicians, and together we're all aging if not always gracefully than certainly gratefully.
Though it still makes me smirk two decades later, maybe I should adopt Gateway to a Great Getaway as a slogan for Mining the Audio Motherlode. What a better way to describe the worldly adventures teed up for you here on a weekly basis.
It's that time of year again, when my friend Andy sends out a hotly excitable e-mail asking a dozen of his most music-crazed friends to compile their personal lists of the year's best music.
We're going to go all meta-scalable on this thing with a "best of" list of other people's "best of" lists. Here are the best lists of the best music of 2011 in no particular order, because as with music itself, lists are subjective.
Just in time for the holidays, here is my 9th annual list of music that you may have missed and might like. Not as many standout releases for me in 2011 but plenty of good ones.
In an effort to stand out, which is really impossible this time of the year, I'm posting my top 20 songs of the year, and top 11 albums, as in... 2011.
On Saturday afternoon, Barack, Michelle and Bo Obama went to see daughter Malia play soccer. After the game, the First Parents returned to the White ...