It’s just five years since these three guys got together – sorry, make that two guys and one gal – and at that point they were all fresh into the whole business of making string band music. In that time […]
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Wow. They are so friendly.State Radio are just a killer bunch of guys. I’m sorry- let me start at the beginning. Mike got in Wednesday. Seeing him back in town- it’s not just like him coming home; it’s like all […]
Derek Hoke – Goodbye Rock ‘n’ Roll (Electric Western, 2009) Georgia-born Derek Hoke opens his debut with the album’s bold title declaration: Goodbye Rock ‘n’ Roll. It’s an immensely catchy song whose pedal steel and thumping honky-tonk beat underline the […]
On snowy Thurs. Feb 25 I lectured at Baruch College/CUNY to 90 journalism students on “The Blues Today, Challenges and Contradictions of Covering It,” part of this years’ Milt Hinton Memorial Presentations, named for the great Missippi-born, Chicago-bred bass player […]
Wait a second, uplifting, positive rock n roll with an optimistic outlook coming out of the American Heartburnland? Really? Now? Like in 2010? Seriously, with everything going on with the economy and all? Yup. And it’s good too. Don’t get […]
Greg’s Grab Bag Phil Ochs, James Taylor & Joni Mitchell – Amchitka: The Concert That Launched Greenpeace Documenting the October 16, 1970 concert that raised funds to send a boat to the island of Amchitka near Alaska in protest of […]
I knew I would want to see Crazy Heart when I learned of T Bone Burnett’s association with the music. The idea of a country musician as the main character was also intriguing, and the presence of Robert Duvall in […]
Comes out in April. His best yet. From amazon.com: Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as […]
Hey everyone. Autopsy IV from ninebullets.net checking in. I posted the February edition of the ninebullets.net podcast today. This month’s features bands I hope to catch while I am in Austin for SxSW. If any of you are gonna be […]
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