In Medias Res

More cheating. Eric Clapton's version of " Cocaine ," a deliriously ambiguous rock song by J.J. Cale--a song that Clapton has ...

I'm cheating here (not for the first time, nor for the last). As much as possible, I'm focusing on just one single, memorable pop an...

Yes, my focus here is on all the great pop and rock that laid foundation for my radio addiction, 40 years ago. But why not include a joke so...

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings , the latest collection of writings by Wendell Ber...

" Roxanne ," The Police's "signature tune according to their bassist, Andy Summers--and he's right; the only song of ...

Did I know who The Beatles were in 1978? I'm not sure. I have a vague recollection of having seen Yellow Submarine on television at som...

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] Robert Wuthnow's new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America , is the best bo...

Forty years and one week ago, the Patti Smith Group's groundbreaking rock-punk-folk album Easter began its march into the pop charts, l...

[In May of 2016, when the Woodchuck Bicycle Boulevard was officially opened here in Wichita--that's where the photo was from--I wrote a ...

Of course there's a "national conversation" taking place over guns; is there ever not in America, no matter what the most rec...