As the prophecy foretold. Video Killed the Radio Star was the first video aired by Mtv in1981. It was the summer before my sophomore year of high school, and I don't know how to explain the importance of this to anyone who wasn't a teenager in the 80s. It was like being alive at the dawn of television - this whole new medium that would change the world. I need you to understand how very primitive music-listening was in the early 80s. I grew up listening to music on the clock/

I met Todd in1991. I was waiting tables at the Bottom Line. I know that sounds like a strip club but it was actually a neighborhood pub in East Memphis where there now stands a TJ Mulligans. It was smaller when it was The Bottom Line - just the one long room with a bar that ran the length of one side. Paul, the guy who owned Bottom Line, also owned Poplar Lounge in Midtown. Poplar Lounge had a decades long hole-in-the-wall history until the 80s when Memphis State students dis

This morning on my commute to work, I listened to Yacht Rock - or, as I like to call it, "Clock Radio Music." Because it's the music I...

It's been a minute since I told my Hamilton story. That was many social media and blog platforms ago. My apologies for those of you who...

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that...

She had had more than her share of bad luck. The end of a 30-year marriage that had her feeling like she'd wasted her whole adult life....