Things James Mann Taught Me (Ink 19, September 2000)

Links to sites with more information about school, education, and teaching, compiled for your enjoyment by James Mann.

Finally, 30 years after the fact, we get to hear Led Zeppelin music live the …

The phrase “instrumental rock” falls into the category of “non-words” - along…

Now let us pray at the altar of the boogie. Presiding over our session today …

From her days as a drawing card in the Velvet Underground to her haunting sol…

Everything James Mann ever needed to know he learned from watching his father – and then doing the exact opposite.

Perhaps if we went back in time and kept Julee Cruise from sing/humming over …

Mere words cannot describe the heaven of this record. Gathering up everything…

Hard to believe Iggy Pop has been releasing records for over 30 years. Harder…

Now this is an interesting idea. Give major guitar-burner Steve Morse (Dixie …

What appears to be an interesting idea on the surface – a trio made up of ba…

Whiskeytown’s Ryan Adams, enfant terrible of the alt-country world, ha…

Wait! All hope is not lost! Just when you were at the point of loading your C…

Nina Simone (Atlanta Jazz Festival, Chastain Park, Atlanta, GA, May 26, 2000). Concert review by James Mann.

Amy Ray’s independent, not for profit label Daemon has long been one of the g…

Who says in heaven there is no beer? James Mann reveals why the world will never end at the Star Bar, and how the wrong woman can become the right woman in the right circumstances.

Poor little Luna. Left at the altar by former label Elektra, who went as far …

One-man records can be dangerous things. By their very nature self-indulgent,…

Feature by James Mann