Pretty much the only time I would listen to instrumental music as I was growing up in the fifties and sixties would be at the beginning or end of a radio show. All of the rock ‘n’ roll disc jockeys […]
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Way back in the old days, when No Depression came to you on paper instead of pixels, there was a brief review of Dave Olson’s first album in Issue #38 by Jim Musser. In describing the Iowa City short order […]
You probably knew him by the name of Sam Drucker, as he played that role the longest of any, on three different television programs: Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. A character actor with a career that spanned from 1948 […]
I stand in awe these days when people choose the path of any form of artistic endeavor, as technology has done one hell of a job in messing up what was once such an easy, albeit cheesy, business. You had […]
In one week…..The Beach Boys, Neil Young and now…David Bowie. I wrote about the first two already and wasn’t blown away by neither of them. Beautiful moments indeed, but poor choices mars (not Mars) each. And then I get this Ziggy […]
My kid says that for someone who doesn’t like to write album reviews, I’ve been doing quite a few lately. Well I just don’t know what’s gotten into me but there have been moments where I just felt the need […]
This morning, just moments before I took the dog out for a long walk in the California sun so I could listen from start to finish the new Beach Boys’ album That’s Why God Made The Radio, my sixteen year […]
\\Influential singer-songwriter performs the classic “Peace, Love and Understanding”, a song written by Lowe, but made famous by Elvis Costello…
Thought I would share with you the latest update on Doc Watson from the Folklore Productions International website. Obviously our thoughts are with the family and we wish Doc a healthy recovery. May 26, 2012 / 9:30 AM PDT: Doc […]
Since I picked up a black Silvertone archtop guitar in 1965 I’ve been playing the blues, but I just didn’t know it. If you asked me if I liked to listen to the blues, I would have told you “no […]
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