The late Leonard Cohen recently said if he knew where good songs came from, he’d go there more often. If this is so, then over the years Butch Hancock seems to have found an oasis of songs in West Texas. […]
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When singer-songwriter Steve Young died in hospice care in Nashville on March 17 earlier this year, his son, Jubal Lee Young, issued a note of grace: “My father, Steve Young, passed peacefully tonight in Nashville. While it is a sad […]
Very few music biographies or music memoirs tell compelling stories in a spellbinding way. Most of these books flit fitfully across our view, scattering ephemeral bits in their wake, and leaving few memories of the lives and art of the […]
It’s about time that we expand the horizons on what “Radio Friendly” means and get to know some of the artists who make that music that we hear on the radio. David Olney is a songwriter who defies categorization, which […]
It’s great to see so many “low power” FM radio stations popping up across the country like Richmond, Va.’s WRIR-LP, where Garry Morse does his “Lost Music Saloon” show on. And, for the first time, a DJ mentions classical music as a favorite […]
As I continue to spotlight some amazingly dedicated radio programmers from other countries, Dutch DJ Jos Van den Boom is the first to mention the universal, worldwide question of what to do with all the CDs we accumulate. Bill Frater: Where […]
On paper Guy Clark sounds like a thorough eccentric. You know. He was famously perfectionist; so unwilling to let others mess up his songs to the extent that in the latter part of his career he recorded all the instrumental […]
Welcome to the front door of The Real Easy Ed, where each week I curate, aggregate and update news, events, images, ideas, sounds, odds and ends. I consider this simply a speck of dust on the highway; just another place to pause […]
In my attempt to broaden the horizons of what radio people are doing, this week we head to Australia, and talk with Triple R DJ Denise Hylands. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? Denise Hylands: Back in 1984, I had just […]
Dear Terry, I know you remember that night some years back when we swapped songs up on the mountain after a grandtastic bike ride. I played “Officer Down” by N.Q. Arbuckle of Toronto and your perspicacious ears picked up on the […]
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