Remembering a modern prophet

“Bob Marley was a prophet for the freedom fight” He would have been 71 years old today. May his music live on forever.  

Lively up yourself

Thanks to the Grammys last night, I pulled out an old Bob Marley CD this evening and played it as I was running an errand in the car. It’s a windy night here in Chicago, but the Marley grooves are helping to make it seem almost balmy. Lord, you gotta keep on moving…

A sort-of homecoming on Chicago’s North side

The upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts in Wrigley Field in September promise to be a good time. But it’s not widely-known that Springsteen’s first show that wasn’t on the East coast came way, way back in early 1973, at a Chicago club known as the Quiet Knight. I wasn’t in Chicago back then, but if I

A Sure Shot for the Rock Hall

To me, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a fraud. Rock and roll began as an expression of rebellion, and that gleaming building on the waterfront in Cleveland is anything but rebellion. Some of the bluesmen who helped to create rock and roll are enshrined there, but too many of them have been