John Sebastian has stories he can tell
This photo of John Sebastian is probably from about forty years ago and it's how I remember him to look. Or at least it was until I saw him last year in that great jug band documentary film Chasing Gus' Ghost. Like the rest of us, he
The Jim Sullivan Story
We've been obsessed with this record for the past couple years. It's a brilliant album and a fascinating story.
In March 1975, an American singer-songwriter named Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some
something about film: the anatomy of vince guaraldi
It's been a few weeks since me and the older kid worked a couple of shifts at the local film festival and we, along with my wife and younger boy, got to spend three days and nights watching close to thirty-something films. Shorts, animation, features and documentaries. And
Ramsay Midwood: Gospel Music for Inspired Barflies
I hate to commit one of the most overused cliches of music "criticism," the forced paradox, but it just seems too damn appropriate here. Texas singer-songwriter Ramsay Midwood's music is at once highly idiosyncratic but also as familiar as a bad habit. His bluesy, rootsy romps
Record Review: The Falcon Lake Incident -- Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans
Along with the hoariest of r<a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=TZaFMCee5HQC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=" legendary+blues+giant"+critic+cliche&source="bl&ots=xbHycPsIGJ&sig=gS_oPTBSrW2EZto7zcsuUW2VEZk&hl=en&ei=2wq6TMyMGYbhnQfLu93sDQ&
Book Review- Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010
The best American literature is always connected to something in the author's own life and experience, something they continue to come back to time and time again as a theme throughout their work. For Clemens it was the Mississippi River, for Faulkner the culture of his native Mississippi,