Great News

Backstreets has officially reported that later this Spring, Bruce Springsteen will release an album of Pete Seeger covers. What an incredible opportunity to see a revitalization of a true music icon's legacy in a time that truly mirrored that of his greatest work. The McCarty era has its parallels with the current times and yet the Bush monarchy is truly a time that I never hope is repeated. Springsteen will, without a doubt, cover each song faithfully and yet make the tunes meatier and edgier; his covers of classic populist musicians such as Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash have spot-on shown how real rock and roll is the voice of the people. A tour is to follow and it will indeed be a cherry on top of the year I had last year.

Derek Trucks's new album is making great waves in the music world. Songlines has shocked a lot of people and delighted fans eagerly awaiting his first album of new material in four years. It's amazing, even as some of the songs have been altered from their live trappings. My favorite song is The Sky, the album's finale and the most beautiful song on the record.

Iraq headed toward a Civil War? Who would have called it? This administration can only be held responsible for its actions and its actions truly must maintain the "Pottery Barn" principal that then-Secretary of State Colin Powell stated; Bush broke it; we'll pay for it. Three years and countless deaths later, an enraged eastern neighbor arming the insurgency and building its own nuclear program, democratic nightmares in the Palestinian region with the legitimization of Hamas and an what exists is a Middle East that is rife for a regional war. This time, however, the "sick man" is the United States as this nation can not endure another mutli-year military engagement nor will any other nation most likely stand up and stick its neck out to do the same. George Bush has created an anti-western, anti-colonial quagmire that historians will analyze with regret and remorse remembering how just ignorant, duped and outright stupid the American voting populace truly was in the first decade of the twenty-first century. God help us; obviously your self-proclaimed chosen American son hasn't done anything worth while.