2010: Year in Review

This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]

You Don’t Wanna Just Be An Old Walrus All Your Life, Do You?

Now, you can either read the latest installments of our Blood on the Tracks retrospective with a piece on Dylan’s influence from his experience in Durango, Mexico, filming Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and another brief but compelling essay by Sandra Canosa about New York band Mary Lee’s Corvette’s cover of the album (affording [...]

Blood on the Tracks … with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels

It’s either this or another plug for the latest entries in the Pop Matters Blood on the Tracks 35th anniversary retrospective, edited by yours truly. Make your choice.

Blood on the Tracks

So much to catch you folks up on. The move went well as can be expected (does any residential move go perfectly?) and we’re finally settling into the house after finishing up an exhausting three-month contract job that went several weeks over the alloted time frame for production. In between the move and the short-term [...]

Call For Papers: Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks”

I will be co-editing a 35th anniversary retrospective of Bob Dylan’s seminal album Blood on the Tracks for Pop Matters, currently scheduled to publish in April. From editor Sarah Zupko: Building from our ongoing feature series All Things Reconsidered, where we go back and examine a cultural product from the past, we are expanding this [...]