Ode To A Departing Grandmom

How cool is it that my 82-year old Mom will travel across the country to spend a month with me and my wife and my three crazy kids? It’s totally cool. She heads back east tomorrow and the star fish is waving goodbye. (BTW: She digs all this stuff…tapping her toes to Social D. on [...]

Got My Sam Cooke On

I have to ask you: is there anyone out there who doesn’t dig James Hunter? Sure, he’s singing straight from the Sam Cooke/Ray Charles Hymnal of Southern Soul (with a touch of Jimmy Scott and Van Morrison) but who cares? The cat does it so well. Analog recording, horns deep in the mix, background vocs [...]