The halls, hotel lobby, and hotel rooms are alive with the sound of music here at the 29th annual Folk Alliance International Conference at the Westin Hotel in Kansas City from early every morning to early the following day. Nearly everyone […]
Your head nods … suddenly you find yourself drifting into a sea of musicians, thousands … performers and bands marching forward and back in hotel guestroom hallways. Setting up in hotel room after hotel room from the dark of night […]
In my continuing effort to highlight DJs from all over the world, I present Rolf Hierath from Germany. He is a big Johnny Cash fan and does no less then three weekly radio shows. Bill Frater: Where and when did you […]
Before there was Americana, before there was alt-country, there was folk music. Or, as Bill Broonzy once said, “I guess all songs are folk songs, I ain’t heard no horse sing ’em.” This week we have a treat by Jill […]
Bill Kirchen is best known for his work with Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airman back in the 60-70’s with a radio hit and crowd pleaser, “Hot Rod Lincoln”. Kirchen is said to have “one of the most distinctive, […]
Bill Kirchen performing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2014 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA.
Bill Kirchen’s credentials as a guitarist have been well-established and justly lauded since his stint with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen (1967-1976). Since then he’s lent his string prowess to a number of performers (notably touring with Nick […]
Since his glory days with Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen from the late ’60s to mid-’70s, guitarist Bill Kirchen has been plying his trademark brand of roadhouse rock ‘n’ roll in bars across America. His latest album for […]
Midway through “Hot Rod Lincoln”, the title track of Bill Kirchen’s first solo live album, the former Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen axman takes the audience on a pedal-to-the-metal musical detour. Kirchen revs it up and passes a […]
When rock ‘n’ roll crawled onto land in the 1950s, it emerged from the morass comprising jump blues, rhythm & blues, country, and hillbilly music. Around 1970, when rock ‘n’ roll was only as far removed from its humble beginnings […]
