Chappell Roan, “Good Luck, Babe!” The inaugural artist for this series is hard not to like (at least for me). She is gorgeous in the campy way drag queens are, but with a soaring voice and sense of humor. The drumbeat on GOOD LUCK, BABE! reminded me of BILLE JEAN and it has a moody 80s vibe all through it. The lyrics are great – the rhyme of “truth” with “sunroof” is fantastic. [...]
Can I get a show of hands? Love it? Hate it? Who can’t imagine doing anything else, even though it would be so great to just lie on the couch sometimes and channel -surf. Last night, I fell asleep thinking about set lists and stage plots. And the input list that I am sure missed somebody. And then the suitcase I needed to dig out because I kept forgetting I was leaving for Louisville [...]
At the risk of sounding like a vinyl curmudgeon, there was once a time you’d buy an actual record album in an actual walk-in store. It was an event. Then you’d go home, unwrap it, put it on the turntable, and while it played, you’d read the liner notes and lyrics to all the songs. It’s an interesting fact that vinyl album sales are currently outpacing CDs and digital downloads. That means there [...]
