Big Joe and the Dynaflos with Anson Funderburgh
In the beginning, there was the beat. Some possessed, it, some were possessed by it. The sound was unmistakable. The rhythm was alive -- a throbbing pulse that got under your skin, spreading through your body like a wave.
Around these parts, they call it beach music. In its original form,
Kinky Friedman on Dylan, Diddley, and Bernie Sanders
It’s impossible to define Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman in a word or two, but maybe “a character” is the quickest summation. There are other words too, of course: musician, singer, songwriter, irreverent humorist, novelist, columnist, politician, cowboy, dog rescuer, pro-marijuana activist, cigar manufacturer, tequila maven, chess
Revisiting The Forties & Fifties With Tia’s Enthusiasm = You’ll Be Dancing
Every now and then I have to clean out my head of music I enjoy regularly and dive into something different. Just to remind me there are other viable entertaining types of music to be heard and appreciated. I have lots to sift through but recently what caught my ear
Rare Vinyl Finds from Québec
Each year for the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to be invited out to Montréal for the festival La Grande Rencontre. When I was a kid, I visited Montréal a few times to visit my grandmother Colombe Leblanc, and those are some of my best memories. A
Land Of A Thousand Bridges: Island Girl In A Rock & Roll World
Where to begin?
Probably the classic "once upon a time" would be a good place to open what's going to be a long look at one of the most extraordinary autobiographies I've ever come across. There are so many moments, so many starting places,
For Poco Bassist Jack Sundrud, It Started with the Beatles
A lot of music has influenced long-time Poco bass player Jack Sundrud, but he says seeing the Beatles at age 15 “was the experience that set the hook of music in my soul."
Sundrud’s memorable day — Aug. 21, 1965 — began in his small northwestern Minnesota hometown, Oklee,