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It is said that Steve wrote over 8500 songs. What we know for certain is that his tunes were recorded by the likes of Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Mel Torme, Count Basie, Sammy Davis Jr., The Andrews Sisters and Ringo Starr. Not bad.

Patti Smith: vocals- Jay Dee Daugherty: drums- Lenny Kaye: guitar- Ivan Kral: bass, guitar- Richard Sohl - piano

Warren was a radiant original in a land of carbon paper. His hymns are a pledge of allegiance to the sanctity and sins of a world we are born into without request and forced to leave at random. Honor, debt and gratitude are all explored in a body of work unlike any in popular music. Enjoy.

You can love him, you can hate him but it's difficult to be indifferent toward this ego driven composite of a rock hard tiger and Woody Guthrie. When you go and name your kid 'Hud', you just know that the cat has a variety of cinemascopic issues. But within those 19 albums lives some glowing depth.

This episode was written by Arnold Manoff, a fine storyteller who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He wrote five “Naked City”, three “Route 66” and one of “The Defenders” episodes under the alias Joel Carpenter. Director Robert Ellis Miller conducted "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."

Death Don’t Have No Mercy In This Land and that fuckin' reaper often extracts beauty from the Earth before that which is grotesque. Steve was exiled to Leukemiaville at 36. October 5, 2007 was officially Steve Goodman Day in the State of Illinois. He deserved many more days to compose his gift.

As Janis Joplin was receiving Flower Power props around '67, Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O´Brien was stirring the real feminine pot of blues and soul stew. From the moment I heard her 1966 perfect plea "Stay Awhile", I was hooked. 47 years later, her work stands the test of truth.

One reason Bruce has scaled monumental heights has to do with the way he talks. He might be singing, but all the while he's telling you a story that can get under your skin even if you never saw "Atlantic City", "Nebraska", "The Promised Land" or "Sandy." Emmylou can hear Bruce speak quite clearly.

Pickett testified with a fierce raven passion during an extraordinary career that witnessed flaming cuts with The Falcons as well as a menu of Atlantic sides that are unequaled in heart and boldness. He stretched his exclamations to the edge to find feelings that cannot possibly be voiced.

Steve serves up another heapin' helpin' of Jazzy rarities along with a cool side dish of keen observations.

Whether Ali invented rap or not is of little significance. It's still fun to play with such a premise. What Ali did discover was a modern age philosophy addressing race, religion, bigotry, sport, war & the social consequences of investing in pure belief. His message is global, his courage massive.

Many only recall Buck as the dumb 'hillbilly' on that awful "Hee Haw" TV show. Yeah. Owens made that lucrative choice. But he also made a number of exemplary recordings (Crying Time, Together Again) and played Carnegie Hall and the Fillmore West when that really meant something.

In 1967 there was a television wavelength known as UHF. You had to struggle to obtain a decent signal, but when you did magic could happen. Zacherle, The Cool Ghoul, had a teen dance show out of NJ that was carried by this signal. It was within this TV twilight that I first met The Doughboys.

I first heard this tale of scorched desire and sensual suicide on WNEW FM NY when I was 17. It pierced my young brain unlike any 'first time' rhyme I'd ever heard. The fact was that I identified with it's intimate terror dramatically. That initial blast of sexual revolution can be quite a bitch.

"Rush To Judgment" - Side TWO -A JFK 50th Anniversary Special! - The '67 Vanguard Soundtrack LP from the Emile De Antonio Film, Based on the Mark Lane Book - The First Genuine Argument Challenging the Flawed Warren Commission Findings