by Pico As an acclaimed maestro on a variety of stringed instruments (violin, mandolin, guitar) Mike Marshall can call upon just about anyone in the field of progressive bluegrass to accompany him on an album. For his fresh-out-of-the-oven album Mike […]
Fifty-five years ago on Dec. 9, Elvis Presley performed “Heartbreak Hotel” for the first time, although he would not record the song until a month later in January 1956. According to Ernst Jorgensen’s Elvis Presley: A Life in Music, the […]
Christmastime in America: http://tinyurl.com/33mya39 Great Holiday sale at Bloodshot: http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/holidaysale2010 Speaking of Bloodshot…Ha Ha Tonka’s Daytrotter session: http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/ha-ha-tonka-concert/20030863-3737561.html More free music from Suburban Records, including a live Anniversary show: http://tinyurl.com/3a63ehu Today’s Caption This: http://cdn.guyism.com/wp-content/uploads/white-trash-family.jpg
11/15/2010 Hardchargers, The new record, “ONE FOR THE DANCEHALLS” is being printed as I write this. With record stores shutting down, record labels going under, it’s no wonder that the rest of the music business world (except for some punk […]
If anybody wants to make me a happy boy, this is on my want list..
Joe Diffie has spent most of his career singing popular country music. Diffie’s vocals sound as good or better than I expected, He does have a good set of pipes. He sings mostly covers written by Nashville’s best and even […]
1.0 Are your earliest musical influences the most pervasive or do others break through along the way? The early ones in the formative years are still the Mount Rushmore for me of songwriting….but there certainly have been people that have […]
Back in the early eighties I ran a record store situated on the border of Santa Monica and Brentwood…the upscale LA neighborhood that a certain football player put on the map after slashing his pretty blonde ex to death along […]
Nearly everyone, and certainly everyone here, would have had their lives enriched by the musical influences offered up to us over the course of our life experiences. It is one of the defining elements that contribute to our western culture. […]
Playlist for A Patchwork Quilt Saturday 5pm-6:30pm November 27, 2010 Live! 91.7 fm KALW San Francisco 500 Mansell Street San Francisco CA 94134 http://www.kalw.org Kevin Vance, host & producer kevin_vance@yahoo.com past playlists can be found at http://folkradio.org search archives with […]
