Nightly Ramble: Global Warming, Please; Ace; REALLY Outside the Beltway; The Ratings Game Writ Large

* If we’re supposed to be suffering under global warming, please explain to me why I’m wearing a sweatshirt and the heavy jeans and still freezing my ass off. We’re not even supposed to make it out of the thirties

Good Friday. Ken Collins explains why it’s called “Good”. As a boy, I can recall being restricted to the house between noon, the time mentioned when the sun was blotted out of the sky, and 3pm, the time our

The Music: Koinonia, Celebration;

Released in November 1984, and recorded in Stockholm and Gothenburg the March before, this was released originally in Europe then Japan, then finally, the ‘states. I happen to have a copy from Japan still on

It was 65 around here today. Pitssburgh, to our south, caught an 80 degree day, I hear. Between now and the weekend, we’re supposed to get snow. Go figure.

*The Music: WAR; Platinum Jazz

Actually, it could be ANY

The Music: The Turtles 20 Greatest hits

Before there was Flo and Eddie, they were known as Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman.  Their producing talent included the legendary Bones Howe, Chip Douglass and Ray Davies. Add to that a flat

The Music: Maggie Bell, Suicide Sal

I’m not quite sure how to describe her singing. Perhaps the most public exposure she ever got on this side of the swim was singing alongside Rod Stewart, on 1970’s “Every picture tells a

* The Music: David Lanz: Cristofori’s Dream.. The original Windham Hill pressing, not the Narada Remaster.

Laid down at Miramar Studios in Washington State, back in 1987 and released in 88, this album held the number one position in the

The Music: Passport, Looking Thru, 1974, (CD release, 1994.  )

Hailing from Germany, they were Germany’s best progressive jazz group, back in the day.  I have something of a personal history with this album, it got used quite a bit

Road trip today, and I don’t know when I’ll be back tonight, so, I’ll post this a bit early, today:

The Music: Lighthouse: One Fine Morning, 1971

This was their fourth album, released in July of 1971.  Their first three

* Getting warmer around here; we actually made it up to 67 today.  I’m starting to think about hauling the trailer back up here from the storage location, 60 miles south.  The snow was mostly gone, except where the snowplows

* The Music: Today is the birthday of Johan Sebastian Bach. So, today’s choice is a natural: Switched On Bach. Recorded by Walter Carlos, who later became Wendy Carlos (I suppose we are dealing with Todd Rundgren called “the Tourtured

* The Music: The Outlaws first album, 1975. Yes, I seem to be in that neighborhood chronologically, for a couple of weeks now. This one is an old favorite. Probably the most powerful guitar album I am aware of…

* The Music: Tonight, I’m going electronica. Gert Emmens, an album called “Wanderer of Time”. Emmens is a relative unknown in the US, except in the rather esoteric world of electronica. The album reminds me of Tangerine Dream in it’s

* The Music : George Benson’s “Breezin”

Instead of the CD, or the MP3, Im playing it from the original vinyl, tonight. And when I say original, I mean original.  This disk was handed me, while I was doing on

* The Music:

The Moody Blues: “To our Children’s Children’s Children”

I’ve always been a Moodies fan, and this album since it came out in 69, has always been one of my ‘Desert Island collection’.  Inspired by the Moonlanding which