Prologue Los Angeles 1980: Somewhere around the middle of Eddie Zip’s second set on any Friday night at an Italian restaurant just south of Third on La Brea an older, well dressed black man would walk through the door, take […]
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I enjoy reading mysteries. From Elmore Leonard to John Sanford, Lawrence Block to Stephen White. Robert B. Parker to Jonathan Kellerman, Michael Connelly to Robert Crais. Notice that they all are men. For reasons never quite understood, I struggle with […]
Up until this morning I never heard of this guy. My friend Vince tracks dead musicians at a blog called The Music’s Over and he posted this: James O’Gwynn, known to fans as “The Smiling Irishman,” was a country […]
Fret melting technopicker Adrian Legg performs “Cajun Interlude.” From the Vestapol DVD “Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions & Explorations…
Just call this my Ricky Gervais moment. I have not a clue as to why I’m about to descend into being so mean spirited, but while looking for some album artwork from Walter Egan (the Magnet and Steel guy), I […]
I happened to see this morning that Mississippi born and current Brooklyn resident Kelley McRae has chosen to go the way of so many artists these days in getting her music heard and noticed by giving away a free download […]
I sure wish the tech gods here at ND would allow me to post this video but something is amiss. So please do me a favor…click on the link below, watch it and then come back. I’ll wait…. There’s […]
Old habits seem hard to break, which might explain why me and my old partner still start our mornings scanning the Billboard magazine’s daily e-news. Despite both of us being away from the music business for about three years, there’s […]
I first encountered the Allman boys at a beer and clam joint on the boardwalk in Atlantic City where we sat across from each other on the horseshoe shaped stick. We exchanged some words and jokes as we all drank […]
Just happened to see this note a few moments ago from a friend. Darn. I know Gerry and Joe Egan’s Stealer’s Wheel weren’t Americana, but they brought an acoustic-folk sound to AM radio with their music, and it was back […]
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