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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Once upon a time I collected Facebook friends as if they were baseball cards. The more the merrier it seemed, drawing together a large community and network of people from my past, present and future. Childhood friends, high school girlfriends, […]
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 […]
Welcome to the front porch of The Real Easy Ed, where each week I 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 sun […]
This month marks the seventh year that I’ve been a featured writer and columnist at No Depression. I began to put words into pixels at the beginning of the post-print era, when this roots music community initally came together from a group of hardcore follwers spawn from […]
For the past three days, I’ve been laying on the couch with a high fever, sore throat, and deep cough. I’ve been too weak to pick up my guitar or make my way through the dense academic biography of Folkways’ […]
I knew it was over when Britain’s largest supermarket chain, Tesco, announced that they would begin selling vinyl in their stores. Not raincoats or reclining chairs or shiny boots or garden hoses, but actual record albums. What has been a […]
Wedged between two holidays that celebrate heart and history, this year’s Folk Alliance International conference will be convening in Kansas City with over 2,500 attendees that include those who make the music, those who write about it, those who bring it […]
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