Billie Holiday performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on July 6, 1957. Photo by Bill Spilka/Getty Images). This column is called REWIND because, for its first year, I listed my top five songs from every year since 1967. It was a good project and I…

Insert Foot’s Christmas playlist. My cat and I just put together our very first playlist of 14 essential holiday songs and it’s super exciting.  Of course, I did most of the work.   I say that because my cat, who answers to “Marlo” (he does, eventually, the third or fourth time…

Dennis Quaid, courtesy Derrek Kupish. Around the same time as he was first becoming a film star, Dennis Quaid was trying to get a music career off the ground. This was in the late ‘80s. He’d gotten a band—consisting of Bay Area music icon Bonnie Raitt’s touring band—and even…