I was tooling around Wikipedia after watching Eight Men Out and came across this nugget.  Did you know...baseball legends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were banned from Major League Baseball (or more accurately, they were placed on the "permanently ineligible" list) by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in the early '80s?  Mantle and Mays had accepted jobs at two different Atlantic City casinos (mainly as greeters), which Kuhn felt was "no place for a baseball hero and Hall of Famer."  The pair were reinstated ... Read on, Daddy-O

Joe Henry has spent enough time recording and producing albums to know exactly what he wants to accomplish, and how to get right down to it. That's exactly what he does on his tenth full-length release, Civilians. The opening title cut seems straightforward and simple, but is packed with brilliant little musical and lyrical touches that reward close listening. It's an intimate song, complete with a small string section, and feels not so much like the beginning of a new album but ... Read on, Daddy-O