There is no shortage of love among parents and 4-year-olds for Dan Zanes, and rightfully so. On the strength of five brilliant family albums, he and his ragtag posse got the multitudes in on an intergenerational groove so powerful it jolted kids' music out of a long and boring slumber--if anybody deserves credit for redefining the parameters of a genre doomed to rot in dullsville, he's the guy. But as gifted a musician as Zanes is--songs like "Firefly," off 2002's Nighttime, prove it so mightily you wish somebody would get around to naming him the Godfather of Meaningful Kids' Music--those who... more