No mere cover–James’ treatment is more convincing than Paul’s.
Continue reading...112: James Taylor, ‘Yesterday’
SoTW 299: Brad Mehldau, ‘Junk’
Mehldau plays The Beatles. What the heck does that have to do with paranormality??
Continue reading...018 Sir Paul McCartney, ‘Distractions’
In which Jeff calls Sir Paul “the Prince of Plastic, the Sheikh of Shallow” (utter blasphemy!) and presents the one song from Paul’s 30something post-Beatle CDs that deserves to be visited and revisited, because it’s
uniquely mature, straightforward, honest and heartfelt.
006: Elvis Costello, ‘Accidents Will Happen’ (live)
In which Jeff maintains that Elvis Costello is as talented as John Lennon.
Duck, Jeff! Run for cover!!