STORIES
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I started writing about music and musicians in the late 1970s. In those days I was obsessed with the Beatles (some things never change) and Neil Young, whose lyrics and singing voice fascinated me. Eventually it turned out that I was OK at it — and when my friend Bill Templeton and I started a Tampa Bay–area music magazine called Rocks Off!, I discovered that the more I wrote, the more free records I could get in the mail. Thus, a career was born.
So here it is, all these years later. As of this writing I've done liner-note essays for well over 100 CDs and been published in dozens of magazines across the globe. Many of the really long biography stories on this site were originally written for the music magazine Goldmine, back when they'd still let you go deep into research and tell an artist's story, regardless of how many words it took up. Some things do change, after all.