A prescription-level dose of music therapy

Normally we offer an over-the-counter dose, but today we’re toying with a possible overdose. The occasion: Dave Letterman’s departure from the late night scene. Everybody who is anybody musically has been on Late Night. Who stands out as #1? Paul and Dave don’t hesitate to answer, and that most memorable performance dates all the way back to 1982. Here is …

Two Music Therapy Classics

Music is such a richly diversified tapestry that its ability to provide therapy is virtually unlimited. It can exhilarate, sadden, calm, inform; it can make us introspective, or just plain crazy with emotion. Today, let’s open the musical vault for two all-time classics that really need no introduction. Even so, here are a few words about today’s B-side, James Brown’s …