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Insights: The Music of Steve Forbert Then and Now

Was there ever a debut album more fittingly titled than Steve Forbert’s astonishing 1978 release ‘Alive on Arrival’?

Maria Callas was the finest singer of the twentieth century, bar none: the finest singer in any language or in any genre of music.

There’s a message in each of these songs that aligns closely with ideas that are more than two thousand years old.

The characters in Springsteen’s songs do desperate things like drive all night but there’s no payoff; they see only fallen angels.

Nina Simone can make you forget that anyone else has ever recorded anything she sang.

Was Stevie Wonder right after all? Can music be generated by plants?