Setting the Record Straight on Bobby Fuller
I had a fascinating phone conversation this afternoon with Rick Stone, a friendly guy from El Paso who in the mid '60s was the road manager for The Bobby Fuller 4.
Rick had contacted Kyla Fairchild of No Depression, where I'd cross-posted my recent column on
Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs (1923 - 2010): Rad pacifist street peddler who begat folk rock, hippiedom & punk
According to the family of Tuli Kupferberg, the poet-comic-satirist-cartoonist-street artist-community media star and truth teller who died last week at age 86, the public service at Manhattan's St. Marks church from noon to 3 pm Saturday 7/17, will have "no religious
The forgotten legacy of The Big Bopper
Few, if any, rock performers have had a larger impact on the history of country music than J.P. Richardson. Although his own work in the genre consists of just one single, in 1959 a Richardson-penned tune named "White Lightning" became the first number one hit for
CD review: Eilen Jewell Presents Butcher Holler
EILEN JEWELL PRESENTS BUTCHER HOLLER
A Tribute to Loretta Lynn
Out July 27
One day last summer, instead of coming straight home from work, I decided to head to the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge for a show by a group called Butcher Holler. Full disclosure: I knew what I was
Janis Joplin, Townes Van Zandt and Stevie RayVaughan Among Inductees To Austin Music Memorial
The Austin Music Memorial, which honors individuals who have made substantial contributions to the development of the Austin music community, will induct 10 more local music pioneers on July 11 — and this year, it’s a group heavy with household names and well-known Texas icons.
The induction ceremony will
Review: Tom Jones- Praise and Blame
In 1969, when Elvis Presley made his return to live performing at Las Vegas's International Hotel (later to be renamed the Las Vegas Hilton) his goal was to create a musical experience that contained all of the great forms of American music: folk, pop, rock, country, blues, R&