This is the first DJ profile where I didn’t know the person beforehand. It’s also the first DJ who has an “air name” and wishes to keep his anonymity sacred. I found Professor Purple through the Twang DJ Yahoo group, where like-minded air […]
My wife and I first drove up the steep hill to the top of the Wilkes Community College campus in late April of 2003. We had heard of the groundbreaking music festival known as MerleFest several years earlier, but now we […]
This week we talk to Mary Tilson, who hosts a popular and long-running show on Berkeley, California’s powerful and ultra-liberal KPFA, which was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What […]
Poster by Michael Cavanaugh from previously unpublished photo by Jeffrey Kliman. Can you name a musician Rolling Stone magazine puts five ahead of Tom Petty in their “Most Important Artists of All Time” list and who died over four decades […]
Jim Lauderdale was in Erskine High School in South Carolina working at a college radio station when someone there told him about a record called Grievous Angel. “You have to hear this,” he told Lauderdale. “It’s amazing.” And it was. Forty years […]
I wrote this in 2013 after an article in Uncut magazine quoted Mick Jagger’s brother as saying Gram Parsons wrote “Wild Horses.” I’ve always thought so, but never analyzed it from a literary standpoint, what the song could have been written about. […]
Awhile back, before the Great Migration, I wrote an article here titled: Gram Parsons: An Underrated Songwriter? At the time I was the Admin of an ND group devoted to Parsons and his legacy (a group that happened to have […]
From Scotland, Gary Coleman stands beside Waylon’s wall of gold and platinum LP’s (c1985) Pics from COUNTRY ROCK JOURNALS by W.F.Conrad. Includes all my NoDepression posts plus Loads more pics, clips, etc. Available thru Ebay, Amazon or direct from printer: […]
Gram Parsons belongs to a few exclusive clubs in the pantheon of popular music. One, sadly, is Those Who Died Young, the rolls of which are dotted notably with names like Cobain, Hendrix, Joplin, Holly and Redding. Another, with a […]
Except for a brief period in the early ’80s, when I now believe I was trying so hard I put a clothespin over my crap detector, I never really “got” Gram Parsons as a country artist. And as a country-rock […]
