Ex-Eagles Guitarist Don Felder and The Passing of Glenn Frey
Upon hearing of Glenn Frey's passing this afternoon, my thoughts turned almost immediately to Don Felder, the great guitarist whose signature lines helped shape and define much of The Eagles' music from 1974 to 2001.
Felder was summarily dismissed from The Eagles in 2001 in the midst
Glenn Frey: Already Gone
I stopped listening to the Eagles, one of my favorite bands in the early and mid-70s, when Hotel California came out. Maybe it was the loss of Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner and the addition of Joe Walsh—whom I had seen in the early '70s when he
"Mr. Bowie, Tear Down These Walls"
Carly Simon might have been guided by the clouds in her coffee but David Bowie had mammoth moonage daydreams. There was something larger than life, other or outer-worldly about Bowie, who transformed folk songs originally made under his birth name Davy Jones into the epic spectacle of what became
"The Hicks from Coast to Coast" with Mary Tilson
This week we talk to Mary Tilson, who hosts a popular and long-running show on Berkeley, California's powerful and ultra-liberal KPFA, which was the first listener-supported radio station in the United States.
Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What other stations
Revisiting Dave Alvin's "Romeo's Escape" (1987)
If you know this album (bravo to you) it’s probably as Dave Alvin’s first solo recording after leaving the Blasters (and X) and before he made all those albums people really love. And indeed, it’s a transitional artefact of Alvinology. Everything about it, by context and content,
History, Mystery, and Music in Money, Mississippi
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin’ cotton, and my brother was balin’ hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, “Y’all, remember to wipe your feet!