Liverpool Cool and the Ivi League by Randall Auxier Picking up from Troubadours 1, a great part of what makes a song communicate to one’s ass happens below the level of lyrics and melody. Sometimes a troubadour can sacrifice lyrics and/or melody to this sort of below-the-waist movement of musical truth. (Chords and melody  are,…

A Ticket to Stop Believin’ that You Can Go Your Own Way by Randall Auxier You need to admit that you like the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believin’.” (Gotta love the apostrophe, too. God I do.) You know every word to this song (not that they’re hard to learn). You sing it loud when people…