The Blues.
Like any reasonable music lover, I listen to and have opinions on a lot of different styles. I have every Styx album ever made. I think Oscar Peterson is the greatest jazz musician ever to walk the Earth. I really dig Zeppelin, especially Zeppelin IV and Physical Graffiti. I swore that there would never be a rap producer to equal Dr. Dre (or Pete Rock or DJ Premier for that matter), but I’m fairly certain that ten years from now we will all acknowledge that Kanye West is the best of them all. I love the Black Keys, and will argue that Dan Auerbach is a 66-year-old black man in spite of clear evidence to the contrary. Continue reading