Welcome to the front porch of The Real Easy Ed, where each week I curate, aggregate and update news, events, images, ideas, sound, fury, odds and ends. Just a little place to pause for a few minutes, get out of the […]
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Podcasting has been getting a lot of interest lately, but this is the first Radio Friendly interview highlighting a podcaster. I think that Calvin Powers of the Americana Music Show does one of the best podcasts out there. Bill Frater: Where […]
I was four years old when I first recall hearing the wheeze. Hot and cold with fever and chills, a bubbling rumble of fluid through my frail little chest. Dad carried me across the street into the basement office of […]
Jason Samuel is a regular attendee at the Americana Music Association Conference in Nashville every year. When I’ve seen him there, I’ve always appreciated his enthusiasm for the music and for radio. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in […]
As an impressive rainstorm has finally been hitting Northern California, I’m enjoying the calming rain-sounds as I finally get to share with you my conversation from back in October with indie musician M. Ward, in support of his eighth studio […]
While many of the early bluesmen were six-string pickin’, singing and whooping it up at juke joints throughout the Mississippi Delta, focusing more on vice than virtue, Blind Willie Johnson was playing his unique guitar style and singing in his […]
This week, I’m featuring Cayamo’s Journey through Song, a week-long floating music festival on the Norwegian Pearl. As you can read in the Southern Rambler’s articulate review of this year’s cruise, for many attendees, Cayamo is a musical family reunion — about 70 percent of […]
One of the great thrills for me as a photographer and music lover was to see Lucinda on Cayamo. Not just once, but many times. Her music has been part of me years before I picked up concert photography.
An unlikely duo performance on Cayamo 2016.
Lucinda Williams and Alynda Segarra perform together on Cayamo 2016.
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