Americana stalwart Bill Mallonee’s latest album, “Glimmer Vol. 1” opens with the kind of incisive “word on the street” reporting he’s well known for delivering: We built a world to fall a part Right before our eyes With faith in Progress or Whatever Is anyone surprised? The malaise runs deep Deeper than eyes could see And […]
Category: Song Matters
Slow Trauma: A Review
I’ll start this review with a disclaimer. I’ve been a fan of Bill Mallonee since he and his band, Vigilantes of Love, stopped by the Christian college I attended, in a sleepy little Indiana town, back in 1994. Back then Bill sported long, sun-faded hair, John Lennon glasses and played a big yellow Les Paul. […]
Holy No!
It’s hard to describe just how big a deal Pearl Jam was to guys like me in 1993. I was in college, at a Christian school, sheltered quite a bit from the party life of my high school classmates who attended state schools and private “secular” (Christian culture buzzword) colleges. My friends and I did […]
Castles Burning
This is an essay about the first time I heard Neil Young’s “Live at Massey Hall”. It was on the back patio of my older brother’s house the summer after my first year of seminary. But before I talk about that, I want to fast forward a year later, same place, same brother. The night […]
Midnight is Where the Day Begins
I was never a big U2 fan when I was growing up. I was a Duran Duran kid, a Men at Work kid, and then, as 80s pop (in all its glory) gave way to hair metal (in all its… um..) and hair metal gave way to rap, I delved into all of it accordingly. […]
The Road Poet
There are many things that my wife does better than me. Some of these things I could have predicted before we were married. There are a few things, though, that I always thought would fall into my area of expertise. My wife’s a poet and a writer. I’m a songwriter and musician. We were both […]
Saved Together 