I Dream a Highway – Gillian Welch’s Song of America Explicated
I could die happy after writing a song like “I Dream a Highway” by Gillian Welch. It’s personal, cultural, spiritual, and historical. The lyrics are at the end of this post.
One of my poems has a line that goes “you, that fourteen minute song in my head…” That’
Review: The Feelies - "Only Life"
As I could be accused of partisanship, I declare immediately my factiousness towards The Feelies of Bill Million and Glenn Mercer, group that still today I repute one of the most important and underestimated bands of the 1980s. A group that, although listened by “few happy” fans back in the
Stan Ridgway: The Big Heat
From my main blog: restlesskind.blogspot.com
When it comes to Detective Narrative in pop music, I always end up turning to Stan Ridgway and his 1986 tune The Big Heat first. The title track from his first solo record Ridgway, who had just finished up his tenure with the
Dark Was the Night: The Life and Times of Blind Willie Johnson
History has shown us time and again that it takes a very potent recipe of events to spawn a movement. More often than not, a mixture of economic, political, and social factors influence the birth of new ideas and practices. In this particular case I am employing the word movement
How I Uncovered a Bit of Local History (and discovered some great music in the process)
A few months back, I was surfing on the internet, looking at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame's web site. I enjoy visiting that site from time to time to discover new music and to daydream about being alive when it actually was new music.
Anyway, on that particular
From The Acoustic Edge, Naomi Soule and Terry Moses on 89.1 The Wood, KCLC St. Louis MO
No Acoustic Edge show this past Sunday, Decembr 27, 2009. We took off for the Christmas Holiday weekend. We will be back on the air on January 3, 2010. Happy New Year. Listed below is the most recent Acoustic Edge Playlist heard 12/20/09 on 89.1 The Wood,