Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
NOTICE: This piece has since been majorly revamped with much new content — in fact, DITCH THIS SEVERELY TRUNCATED VERSION in favor of the January, 2017 re-boot! Perhaps someday in the not-too-distant future, Silver Spring will organize an event to celebrate all the music history attached to Track Recorders, a sound
I was recently reminded that Stevie Nicks wrote a song in 1976 that was intended for Fleetwood Mac‘s multi-platinum (i.e., 40+ million) Rumours album but, in the end, used only as a B-side. This song, interestingly enough, is named for the place where my children were born and educated —
“At the start of 1969, [David Bowie] wrote ‘Space Oddity,’ a song that punctured the global mission for the Apollo moon mission,” Peter Doggett observed in his Introduction to 2011’s The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s — an analysis of Bowie’s songwriting, chronologically speaking, throughout
It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to a local library that served our community with honor and steadfast dedication these past 58 years. This Sunday there will be a closing ceremony. Silver Spring‘s public library is distinctive in Montgomery County, Maryland for its Frank Lloyd Wright-esque
Gene Rosenthal, owner of Silver Spring’s independent folk/blues/jazz/gospel/reggae/rock label, Adelphi Records, injects a heavy dose of truth into all this wild, half-researched speculation as to whether Gerry Goffin actually came to Silver Spring, Maryland to record his first (of two) solo albums: “Gerry actually had family in the Silver Spring
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