For the past few months I have been working it out inside my head on how best to profile Alan Rifkin. You see, he is a talented writer, a published author, a teacher, a husband, a father and a good […]
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Step #8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Step #9:Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. You […]
Last week my iPod turned 20,000 songs old when I uploaded my six disc set of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. It feels to me as if I have a lot of music but when I last checked […]
When I was thirteen I wanted to be a disc jokey. By fifteen I wanted to be a rock and roll star. At seventeen I wanted to be Jack Kerouac. And by the time I went off to college, I […]
Sometimes an idea can come to you when you least expect it. Such as this one. It seems almost too simple to work, and it’s not really what I would consider a well thought out plan. Maybe it’ll get a […]
Sometime toward the end of the seventies I stood in a record store parking lot probably wearing faded jeans, black boots, a Dead t-shirt, denim jacket and long hair. In the midst of my short tenure for Warner Bros., I […]
It has been barely more than four years that David Schnaufer passed away. That would be his picture above these words. He’s holding a mountain or Appalachian dulcimer, you may call it either, of which he was credited with restoring […]
Should the name Sandy Dyas sound familiar to you, you might recall seeing some of her work back in the day when No Depression was printed on paper, or perhaps you’ve read about and viewed her photography right here in […]
September 09, 2010 – Rock and Pop By Chris Talbott, Associated Press Wanda Jackson had no idea the influence she would have on future rock ‘n’ roll women when she carved a sharp, distinctive line across the heartwood of the […]
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