By Randall Roberts
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a
remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and
researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics,
technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans.
Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and
gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy
has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency,
and i
Frenz.comSinger/songwriter Neil Finn gathered family and friends in his native New Zealand to create and record a double album in three weeks.
A sage singer/songwriter named Willie Nelson once extolled the joys of "making music with my friends" and a younger, but perhaps no less sage, singer/songwriter named Neil Finn obviously got the message.
But instead of heading out "on the road again," New Zealander and Crowded House frontman Finn invited many of his musical friends and their fa
