Big Geez is a retiree who takes time off from trimming his ear hair to write about music -- occasionally writing reviews, but most often using his regular music feature, Retro Redux, to share his opinions about how something resonates with his memories and those of his generation. You can read more of his faux pearls of wisdom at the Geezer Music Club.
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It's an expanded and re-mastered version of the original 1998 Mirrorball album, and was recorded in Portland...
When I was in my late teens I had a part-time job as an assistant to a broadcasting consultant...
At that time, the kids considered to be cool were the ones listening to the new stuff on the jukebox.
An objective listener would probably not have been too impressed when Ricky Nelson began to sing...
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (whose nickname was originally "Cannibal" because of his prodigious appetite as a boy) came...
It's entirely possible that Thomas Edison, after inventing the phonograph, recorded a wax cylinder of himself...
His distinctive vibrato and styling are impossible to mistake for anyone else.
Clint Eastwood's new movie, Flags Of Our Fathers, is getting a lot of attention lately...
Kenny's fans really don't care how you label his music — they're just happy that there's a new album.
The rising popularity of rock and roll is generally blamed for heralding the beginning of the end...
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