Ray-Bans, Music, and Popular Culture: Bob Dylan and Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who
On Halloween eve, the BBC posted a new promotional photo of the current Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarers that have become not just an iconic, but a crucially sonic, part of his persona as the Twelfth (or so) Doctor.
It struck me just how much Capaldi'
My Grandmother, Dad & Elvis
The story goes something like this…
In early 1955, my 14-year-old father went over to his girlfriend’s house on a Saturday night. A few minutes after he arrived, and was sitting on the girl’s living room couch with her parents in the other room, the phone rang in
Heavy Rotation
I wish I could be a music critic or a concert photographer. I love capturing live events with a camera and think I’m pretty decent at it, but I don’t think I’d make a good critic. I know what I like, what I don’t, and even
The Grand Ole Opry: The Ryman Years
This is a tale of two historic and enduring country music institutions based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Grand Ole Opry-the longest running live radio broadcast in America and Ryman Auditorium-where the Opry called home for thirty years. Today they are still today so closely related in the public mind, they
The Other Side of Jeff Daniels
As an actor, Jeff Daniels' career has often seemed like a contradiction.
From his role as intrepid anchor Will McAvoy in HBO's The Newsroom, for which he won an Emmy, to current supporting turns as Apple CEO John Sculley in the film Steve Jobs and NASA director
Gurf Morlix Talks about "Eatin' At Me" and Much More
It might be a slight exaggeration to suggest it would be easier to name the artists Gurf Morlix has not collaborated with rather than those he has. He’s worked with Lucinda Williams, Warren Zevon, Tom Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, Ian McLagan, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Slaid