Thursday's Earful: Starbucks v. Carly Simon (2); The Word

By: David Schultz

Starbucks has publicly responded to the Carly Simon lawsuit. If you read between the lines, they seem to be saying, "you ungrateful washed up 70s relic, how dare you." It will be interesting if Starbucks can support their figures but in the end, coffee megacorporations should stick to selling coffee and leave losing money on the record business to the record business.

The Word - the gospel-loving supergroup made up up Robert Randolph, John Medeski and the North Mississippi Allstars - will be playing a pair of shows at year's end, December 30 at the Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia, PA and December 31 at Terminal 5 in New York, NY. The Hendrix of the pedal steel has kept a relatively low profile in 2009, making one notable appearance at the NMA's show at the HighLine Ballroom this past spring. The Word's last set of performances took place at the end of 2007 when they hit up the East coast including a gig at the relatively new T5.