“But the truth is, of all the musicians I’ve listened to, watched, interviewed or written about, none so humanly inhabits the spectacle of their creativity and radiates its life force quite like Patti.”

Remember when public protest was a real thing? When people who believed passionately in something got together en masse to express their rejection of or support for it in a meaningful way, And by meaningful we should understand that a result was achieved, that change occurred or an impact was felt.

Who says "the chosen one" can't be an out of shape, preening, reactionary drug guzzling boomer who revels in the glory days and boozehound antics of aimless defiant rejection of the straight/adult world?

Emmylou Harris is a great solo artist and singer but really - and to her added credit - she is one of the greatest backing singers of the past half century.

I never went to Vondelkerk intending to write about Robert Forster’s only Amsterdam show on his late 2019 An Acoustic Evening with Robert Forster tour.

He is not the greatest interview subject but Rakim, who “melted microphones just like cones of ice cream” appeared on The Tight Rope with Cornel West and Tricia Rose in the past month. It’s a sort of conundrum.