#music

Album Club with Jim

One year ago Jim and I started our 2 person album club. The idea is simple: we ping-pong album recommendations, taking about 2 weeks or so to listen and then...

Wilco Welcome Kit

I’m fully caught up on the “Shoving Wilco” podcast after discovering it earlier this year. Good fun for Wilco superfans. Their latest podcast is a curious th...

The Decemberists at Point of the Bluff

Julie and I were delighted when we learned that The Decemberists would be coming to our local venue Point of the Bluff for a summer concert.

Return to Bethel Woods

Almost exactly 9 years ago we were driving Matthew to West Point to report for R(eception) Day and start his Beast Barracks training. On the drive over from ...

Wilco in NY

Julie and I went to a Wilco concert!

Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow

Julie and I went to another concert at CMAC last night. Sheryl Crow The opening act was Waxahatchee, an artist I didn’t know before the show but am excite...

Lumineers

Julie and I traveled up to CMAC Friday night to see Caamp and the Lumineers.

Stumbling onto Highway 61

As Julie and I roamed from Melbourne, FL to Oklahoma City, OK, we accidentally found ourselves in the middle of delta blues country.

My Take on The Beatles - Get Back

While still fresh in my mind I wanted to give some thoughts on the wonderful documentary The Beatles: Get Back. I first watched Let It Be, likely on Betamax,...

Dolly Parton’s America Permalink

Jad Abumrad: In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads ...

Fantasy A&R: My 12 track White Album

I’m a regular listener to the Celebration Rock podcast, and a big fan of Steven Hyden’s writing. Their latest episode presented a fun what-if exercise: what ...

Josh Ritter at the Crystal Ballroom

I'm not much for writing concern reviews but I was so moved by the Josh Ritter show last night at the Crystal Ballroom that I planned to write some words. ...

Tangent - First Live Performance

The boys had their first live performance a couple of weeks ago - here’s the (extremely poor quality) video of the performance, plus a couple of bonuses for ...

Enter Sandman, Take 1

The boys are working hard preparing for a talent show at school later this spring. I convinced them to allow me to record an early take before they became pr...

Jacob, KC, and a little Beatles action

Enjoy: Norwegian Wood - KC, Jacob, Chris and Julie from Chris Brooks on Vimeo. We need a drum section - Matthew hopes to take care of that by m...

Wilco in Bend

I saw Wilco in Bend on Saturday night. Check out some nice photos at this guy’s Flickr set. This might be the best concert I’ve ever seen. The last time I sa...

Digging Last.fm

I stumbled on Last.fm via the nice MacHeist app CoverSutra. You can find my profile here.

More Music: Son Volt, Fall Out Boy, Coldplay

I like posting about music I’m listening to because I usually get good pointers to other artists that I’ll enjoy.  So keep the recommendations coming! An aut...

VH1 Classic Rocks

I suppose VH1 Classic is supposed to rock, but it sure does.  This is my default live TV channel to have on while I work (must get back to work…) now.  Curre...

Music to my ears

A while back I talked about some of my musical interests.  This post prompted some helpful comments that pointed me to some other artists.  Here are some tho...

Alt Country / Americana

I’ve never really been a fan of popular country music.  I don’t take it seriously, consider it worse than top 40 pop, and have spent most of my life befuddle...