From the Desk of Lou Waxman

Dead Man’s Folk: Lou Waxman on Tim Hardin 4

Dead Man’s Folk: Lou Waxman on Tim Hardin 4

Lou Waxman finds Tim Hardin 4 at Vinyl Vogue and uses the 1964 demo recordings as a doorway into folk music, doomed artists, disappearing acts, and why death has always...

Dead Man’s Folk: Lou Waxman on Tim Hardin 4

Lou Waxman finds Tim Hardin 4 at Vinyl Vogue and uses the 1964 demo recordings as a doorway into folk music, doomed artists, disappearing acts, and why death has always...

Everybody’s Talkin’: Lou Waxman on the Midnight Cowboy Soundtrack

Everybody’s Talkin’: Lou Waxman on the Midnight...

Lou Waxman spins the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack and finds far more than “Everybody’s Talkin’.” From Nilsson and John Barry to Jane Birkin, Marguerite Duras, and early Warren Zevon, this battered...

Everybody’s Talkin’: Lou Waxman on the Midnight...

Lou Waxman spins the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack and finds far more than “Everybody’s Talkin’.” From Nilsson and John Barry to Jane Birkin, Marguerite Duras, and early Warren Zevon, this battered...

One-Hit Wonder Lust: Lou Waxman on Animotion’s The Language of Attraction

One-Hit Wonder Lust: Lou Waxman on Animotion’s ...

Lou Waxman grabs Animotion’s The Language of Attraction for fifty cents and uses “Obsession” as a doorway into one-hit wonders, High Fidelity, record-store snobbery, Toni Basil, and the glorious trash...

One-Hit Wonder Lust: Lou Waxman on Animotion’s ...

Lou Waxman grabs Animotion’s The Language of Attraction for fifty cents and uses “Obsession” as a doorway into one-hit wonders, High Fidelity, record-store snobbery, Toni Basil, and the glorious trash...

Song Sung Blue: Lou Waxman on Neil Diamond’s Gold

Song Sung Blue: Lou Waxman on Neil Diamond’s Gold

Lou Waxman finds Neil Diamond’s Gold in the lower bins and uses “Sweet Caroline” as a gateway into Red Sox heartbreak, Ted Williams worship, Wade Boggs beer mythology, and why...

Song Sung Blue: Lou Waxman on Neil Diamond’s Gold

Lou Waxman finds Neil Diamond’s Gold in the lower bins and uses “Sweet Caroline” as a gateway into Red Sox heartbreak, Ted Williams worship, Wade Boggs beer mythology, and why...

Toilet Reading for Record Nerds: Lou Waxman on Christgau’s Record Guide

Toilet Reading for Record Nerds: Lou Waxman on ...

Lou Waxman dives into Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies and finds the perfect kind of “toilet reading” for obsessive record nerds. It may not be Pauline Kael-level...

Toilet Reading for Record Nerds: Lou Waxman on ...

Lou Waxman dives into Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies and finds the perfect kind of “toilet reading” for obsessive record nerds. It may not be Pauline Kael-level...

The Mystery of the Shaun Cassidy 45: Lou Waxman Investigates “Da Doo Ron Ron”

The Mystery of the Shaun Cassidy 45: Lou Waxman...

Lou Waxman tracks down a mysteriously disappearing copy of Da Doo Ron Ron and turns a cheesy teen-idol 45 into a rambling dive through Hardy Boys nostalgia, true crime culture,...

The Mystery of the Shaun Cassidy 45: Lou Waxman...

Lou Waxman tracks down a mysteriously disappearing copy of Da Doo Ron Ron and turns a cheesy teen-idol 45 into a rambling dive through Hardy Boys nostalgia, true crime culture,...