When I decided to do a cover version of Steely Dan’s “FM,” also known as “No Static At All,” I only had to tell Kristi …
Cover + Chords: Learn how to play Gino Vannelli’s “I Just Wanna Stop”
Listening to my favorite Yacht Rock radio station yesterday, SiriusXM’s 311, on the SiriusXM app, I heard Gino Vannelli’s “I Just Wanna Stop,” a No. …
Yacht Rock Original: “Everybody’s Girl”
I’ve loved all-things yacht rock before the genre even had a name. Christopher Cross, Toto, Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates: love …
Cover & Lyrics: The secret to playing Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne”
Last week, I got to see the legendary Steely Dan although I certainly, remorsefully didn’t ever get to see Walter Becker. I wrote about the …
Review: Steely Dan’s Tulsa show a party for Walter, total fan delight
On a night when country star Jason Aldean got all the headlines for playing in Tulsa, his first gig since the horrific Las Vegas shooting …
These 12 songs would be on my all-time best, definitive, ultimate CD
I haven’t been able to run this week because of some heel pain, so I decided to revisit a blog project that I’ve wanted to …
Mary Tyler Moore statue nowhere to be found in Minneapolis
That’s right. I’m talking about the famed Mary Tyler Moore statue somewhere in downtown Minneapolis. It’s the one where she’s tossing her hat into the air, just as she did in the opening credits to her iconic 1970s television series, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”