The JayTunes Jam

Okay… I’m married and pushing 40, so this might not be as interesting as the title would suggest.  I was just thinking about all of the songs with girls’ names in the title and tried to come up with my favorites.  It was tough, though, because there are so many good ones.  Check out some of the [...]

“The Boss” turns 60 this year.  Can you even believe it?  One of the greatest legends of American rock n’ roll, Bruce Sprinsteen has won 19 Grammys and an Oscar and sold over 120 million albums worldwide.  I can’t say that I’ve always been a huge fan, though.  While I definitely heard songs from Born [...]

With St. Patty’s Day coming up in less than a week (and as a one-time resident of an infamous Wisconsin town), I thought I’d take this opportunity to create the Top 10 Luck(y) Songs list.  The artists on it include some legendary names (Sinatra, McCartney, Presley, Springsteen) and a couple of my current favorites (Mraz, Folds, [...]

They call themselves “the most performing group in classical music today” and earned that title by giving their fifth concert of the day to a small but enthusiastic crowd this evening at Grantsburg High School.  Based in Boston, the group consists of two trumpets, a french horn, a trombone, and a tuba playing a predominantly classical [...]

Remember the movie “Reality Bites”?  I don’t really either (although it was Ben Stiller’s directorial debut).  I do, however, remember the excellent soundtrack with great tracks by Juliana Hatfield, U2, Crowded House, Squeeze, Big Mountain, and the uniquely bespectacled miss Loeb singing her biggest hit.  She leads the way in my Top 10 Stay Songs list.  Also [...]

Amazon.com just released its list of the 100 Greatest Singer-Songerwriter Albums of All Time and (predictably) a Bob Dylan album was #1 (Blonde On Blonde).  I know he’s a great songwriter, but I’m not a big fan of his singing, so Mr. Dylan doesn’t make my top 10 in this terrific genre.  Here are my favorite albums from Amazon’s very [...]