• Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii (1974)

    Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii (1974)

    A few months ago, one of me best mates sent me a one line email that had a link to the video below. With just a few minutes to spare I clicked through to the YouTube video and sat mesmerized for the next hour watching this amazingly HD clear video of Pink Floyd in 1971 performing with… Read more

  • Mountain Jam 2013 – lineups announced

    Mountain Jam 2013 – lineups announced

    The line-up for Mountain Jam was announced this week (in a fun way on Instagram one hour before the general announcement was made.) The addition of a big act on Thursday night provides a new twist for the repeat festival goers.  Waking up on the hill Friday morning, instead of just pulling into the lot after… Read more

  • The Perfect Song :: “The Holy or the Broken – Leonard Cohen & Jeff Buckley”

    The Perfect Song :: “The Holy or the Broken – Leonard Cohen & Jeff Buckley”

    While walking down Nyack’s Broadway on Christmas Eve…in the window of legendary Pickwick Books, I noticed two books — one for a friend about Hemingway and his sailboat —  the other for me, entitled “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & The Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah.” Now, I’ve never read nor seen… Read more

  • Neil Young Possessed By Demon at Webster Bank Arena

    Neil Young Possessed By Demon at Webster Bank Arena

    Neil Young and Crazy Horse Showed Up Big at Webster Bank Arena (12-4-12)photo:Todd Tracy Old-time rockers open themselves up for criticism from rock journalists and fans when donning the stage two and sometimes three decades after their prime. The 12.12.12 Concert for Sandy Relief show gave the world a close glimpse of how time has… Read more

  • “Good King Wencelas” by Sufjan Stevens and Irish Rovers

    “Good King Wencelas” by Sufjan Stevens and Irish Rovers

    The traditional Christmas song “Good King Wencelas” — one of my favorites and, evidently, also one of a South Jersey old-school TBR Ramble’r’s too — is always a delight when it weaves its way into the Christmas song rotation that is often overwrought with the same dozen or so standards. “Good King Wencelas” tells a story of the… Read more

  • “A Pirate Looks at Forty” Inspiration – Phil Clark

    “A Pirate Looks at Forty” Inspiration – Phil Clark

    I was reading through the Jimmy Buffett Scrapbook early this morning over coffee and loved reading about Jimmy’s early Key West days (early 70’s). During this period he started writing songs about the local quirky local counterculture.  “Nautical Wheelers” is a good example… “Sonia’s just grinnin’ and Phil is estatic, and Mason just jumped in… Read more