Monthly Archives: August 2023

Grateful Dead – Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO, December 10, 1971 and Madison Square Garden, New York, March 9, 1981: My go-to era for the Dead is the Pigpen years, so I picked the St. Louis show to kick off a recent road trip from Baltimore to Long Island. While it was everything I like about early ‘70s Dead, it… Read more »

John Coltrane – The John Coltrane Quartet Plays: I had a dream about listening to Coltrane, and it was so powerful that I woke up at 3am, got out of bed, and started listening. This was always one of my favorite records and it’s even better than I remember. John Coltrane – John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman: Unlike Plays, I… Read more »