The New Yorker had a nice article about and photo of Will Oldham this week (or last week; I am always behind). If you don’t know anything about him, you can read the article and get a pretty good sense. I have been behind also, I must confess, in following his music. I can’t believe …
I am the oldest of five siblings. Many of you who come out and see the live shows around Boston have seen, heard, met, become friends with, engaged in fisticuffs with, are owed money by, bought watches from, and/or have had your significant others stolen by one or more of my three brothers (a sister …
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, …
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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 …