Wes Phillips

Seeking Alpha thinks so—and points to Amazon's bestseller list to prove why.

Sir John has a different take on the composer who said, "I have never understood a measure of music, but I have felt it."

La Cieca at Parterre.com has posted a new podcast episode of "Unnatural Acts of Opera," wherein Elenore Steber performs at the Continental Baths in 1973. The Village Voice's Arthur Bell described the performance as "an affair to rank with the coming of Christ, the death of Garland, the birth of the blues, and the freezing of spinach."

Over at Living In Stereo, Steve Messick argues that Southside Johnny has been making the records of his career over the last six years. Forced to tour without his legendary Southside Jukes largish band, Johnny and guitarist Bobby Bandiera have stripped down his R&B sound to its blues skeleton, Messick says.

You think the evolutionary path from glider to flier was simple? Think again.

Never go to sleep mad at one another.

"I was here first," grouses Bagheera.