– I would like now to introduce Jason King Chair and Associate Professor of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded…
I was 22 years old. It was August. Summer, the good kind of summer where everything feels possible and nothing…
Almost nobody talks about George. The biographies mention him in passing. The documentaries sometimes show a photograph, and then they…
Almost nobody knows his name, and yet he was in almost every important room, Bobby Neuwirth. He co-wrote the last…
I taught school in Port Arthur for 31 years. English literature mostly, some composition. Thomas Jefferson High School. I had…
“You look like you need some real music,” the man said, pulling off his headphones and handing them to Carlos…
I’ve run an auto repair shop in Port Arthur my whole life. My daddy started it. I took it over…
A father brought his 12-year-old son to a guitar shop to buy his first real instrument. While they browsed, another…
I sold tickets at the Fillmore West for 3 years, 1967 to 1969, every show. Tuesday nights, Friday nights, Saturday…
I’ve been recording music for 61 years, hundreds of sessions, thousands of hours of tape. I recorded people you know…