Book Review: Positively 4th Street, by David Hajdu
Originally published at Blogcritics.org.
Marking the tenth anniversary of its publication, Picador is issuing a new edition of David Hajdu's delicious portrait of the 60's folk scene as it was embodied in two of its greatest lights and two of its lesser luminaries -- Positively 4th
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