HOLLYWOOD -- I trust your Saturday night was mind-bending, epic, Saintsational, etc., but let me share a little piece of mine.
I'm out here on duty, a Southwest Airlines flight removed from the land of black and gold, to file dispatches from the Television Critics Association January press tour, a two-week torrent of underwhelming overstatement.
Four days of cable networks opened the festival. PBS offered a palette-cleansing day of TV aimed high. A concluding sprint of broadcast networks is under way now.
The PBS portion, which included interview sessions on upcoming specials and series about the news media, hip-hop, the Supreme Court, Jonestown and Mormons, among other topic-sprawl, proved typically stimulating, and mostly minus Saints game, so I broke from the interview room for three hours of fretful football. My priorities are straight, even from two time zones over.
by Ben E.
King and Solomon Burke. Mike Stoller provided piano accompaniment while his songwriting partner, Jerry Leiber, clowned beside King. All four are members of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
All four participate Ahmet Built," is scheduled to air in May. Ertegun, a Hall inductee, died in December.
As co-founder of the label, he figured in the recording careers of artists ranging from the Drifters, Ray Charles and Bobby Darin to Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett to Cream, Led Zeppelin and Yes to Tori Amos, Kid Rock and Jewel.
Amazing, given his influence, but Ertegun's artists which notes to play and when.
"He could say, 'That's the kind of groove,' because you all understand what that or academic or facilitating any education in music. But 'Play me that groove,' all the right musicians understand what that is.
So Ahmet could say, 'Play me that groove,' and he could get a groove going by making that kind of request or demand.
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