The Doctor Is In

  Otis Rush & Eric Clapton — some fine blues for a Wednesday night.

    A bit more morning music: B.B. King is, of course, a blues legend. This is some of his best work, when he was quite a bit younger. Enjoy.

    A little ZZ Top with your morning coffee.

There is no answer to the question why? in the walk of faith. It is a foolish question — we could not understand the answer were it given, and to know why would destroy the how, and the when, and the for which purpose. The answer is unfathomable. To know why? is to be God — and despite my aspirations, I don’t have the resume for the job.

One of life’s great pleasures for me is discovering new music. Now, mind you, this is rarely new in the sense of being a new group which has just broken onto the scene; in most cases, I’m discovering music, artists, or groups which have been around for some time, unbeknownst to me. One such artist [...]

For those of you who are guitar players (as I was in a former life), or admire guitar players, or have played air guitar when you thought no one was looking, here’s a rather amazing performance by John Butler.     What amazes me most about this performance is that he is working his magic [...]

If you’re like me, your Christmas shopping is best preserved for those special, quiet moments on Christmas Eve, when not a creature is stirring — because the they’re all caught in traffic at the Mall. But this gift recommendation is a pretty easy hit, especially for the music lover on your Christmas list. My own [...]

A discussion of the difference between grace and Karma, riffing off a quote from U2′s Bono.