CD Review of Junior Burke’s While You Were Gone (2007): Can a New Age Buddhist pop song be hip?
4 STARS
This CD would be very easy not to find, and that’s a shame. It’s a really good record, by a really good songwriter and singer and I didn’t find it until about 3 years after it was released. I know that I would never have
Review: Ain't No Grave- The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
I don't recall whether or not I've mentioned this here before, but my father is an ordained minister. I can remember spending countless days at one church or another all over southern Ohio or northern Kentucky where he was evangelizing and occasionally pastoring. I grew up
Both sides of Roger Alan Wade
"I live in a room with a green radio/Curled in the womb of a 29 year low/Four walls from heaven and one sin from hell/In room 17 at Deguello Motel."
Those words, sung over a simple acoustic guitar lick, provide the opening for Deguello Motel,
Marlon Brando's Jazz-Culture Cool in a Muical Era before Elvis
Scattered thoughts on Elvis, Jazz, and The Wild One:
John Lennon famously said, "Before Elvis, there was nothing." In terms of dominant cultural conceptions of cool, I almost entirely agree. But before Elvis, there was Marlon Brando.
It's hard for those of us who weren'
an article I wrote for Radio Survivor about Rather Ripped Records
http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/03/18/remembering-rather-ripped-records/#more-8957
An article I wrote for Radio Survivor about Rather Ripped Records
Remembering Rather Ripped Records
March 18th, 2011 by Kevin Vance in community radio, music
A friend of mine, Larry Kelp, who hosts a music show on KPFA and was once
Contra Dance Music: Three Bands to Discover
What is a contra dance? Contra dancing is a remarkably vibrant social dance tradition with roots in New England, but dance halls in nearly every major city. It's like square dancing, but done in long lines, rather than in squares. Google your nearest city and "contra dance&