This has to be my 25th year with this event. Honestly, I lost count. It is natural to feel like it is getting old, stale, and for the participants to be less excited as the years go by. And I can only speak for myself, but this is sometimes the ennui-like winter feeling that sets …
I am tweaking the look of the page. Thanks in great part to our friend Steve Dowling, a kiwi by birth and temperament, and a Londoner by edict and mayoral proclamation, who has been coming to soundchecks and shows for years and taking great photos. The one I am using as the top shot is …
Nice mention of this page (have any alternatives for the word “blog” come to the fore?) here in the Globe today. Thanks to the fabulous Sarah Rodman, whom I believe I last saw roaming the streets of Austin Texas in 2006. Say it ain’t so, Sarah! http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
OK, we will post at my site, thanks to Kevin Guiney, to whom I will forever remain in debt for all his hard work on my and BT’s behalf. We are working on integrating a music player so you won’t have to leave Le Blogge. We will also be re-posting the back catalog of CotW, …
Cover of the Week 8 What Are You Doing New Years Eve Read More »
Interesting article on music in marketing by Jon Pareles in today’s Times. Nothing groundbreaking; even Jon seems unable to offer anything conclusive. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Nice to see some other sites picking up on the Cover of the Week project. Bradley’s Almanac had an early post about it. Magnet Magazine takes notice here. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
If I had a dollar for every time a girl/woman told me it’s not me it’s her… Our friend from way back, Juliana, graciously offers her version/explanation of the events described in my Dreaming post. Bill, it’s not you; it’s me. Don’t take it personally that I said I would sing on “Dreaming” and then …
Something I read in a magazine a few days ago set me off on one of those Google-search-digression nights and before I knew it was on to a dozen other things that tangentially looped off that original query. The thing that I had read in the magazine was the first third of a poem by …
The Byrds were one of the most important bands in rock & roll history, with mutual influences flowing two ways between them and Dylan and the Beatles. Without the Byrds there is no Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, no R.E.M., nor many other hugely significant bands. In fact, in a documentary about Petty, he is …
This is my brother, Tom. I was 16 when he was born. That makes him, lemme see…12. Lovely voice, lovely guitar. Sort of Ry Cooder meets John Fahey. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CffcHkVP7vM] http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default