What Is The Meaning Of Nyro’s “Stoney End”?

by Kevin Burton    One of the greatest vocal performances in my time as a consumer of pop music is on a song that leaves me deeply conflicted; Stoney End by Barbara Streisand.    The song grabbed me on some level immediately upon its 1971 release, even before I had the life experience to understand …

Your Corny Marching Orders, March Forth!

by Kevin Burton    You may call it trite, or corny or worse, but people will be focused on it in three days’ time.     Some people anyway.    There will be people using the fourth day in March as motivation to begin work on that special project, the great American novel, or that great …