Danny Alexander writes:
I’ve seen a fair number of E Street Band shows, enough that the normal person would call me a fanatic (few enough that the hardcore tour fans would call me a chump), but I think I’m safe in saying something different happened in Kansas City the last night of the Magic tour.  Now, […]

David Cantwell writes:
Peter Cooper of the Nashville Tennessean has written an excellent obituary for country music’s greatest-ever drummer, Buddy Harman. And I feel more than a little humbled that Peter would include in it a quote from my and Bill Friskics-Warren’s Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greastest Singles (specifically, from that book’s specially […]

David Cantwell writes:
At my other blogging gig over at No Depression, and as part of a larger argument I’ve been making there, I’ve written about the late Isaac Hayes and particularly about his 1969 album Hot Buttered Soul. Please check it out.
Here at Living in Stereo, I’ve added several pieces to our permanent collections, listed […]

David Cantwell writes:
Sonny James’ “Young Love” sat atop the country charts for a full month in early 1957, replaced on March 2 by Johnny Cash’s “There You Go.”  This Cash hit has always been one of my favorites, if you’ll allow that by “always” i can mean since I first bought a Cash on Sun greatest […]