Live Review: Memories of Elvis w/ Steve Davis & the TCB Band
Memories of Elvis w/Steve Davis & the TCB Band--Blueberry Hill's Duck Room--St. Louis, MO--August 18, 2009
The King is gone/Long live his name. Ronnie McDowell (you know, Ronnie, you sound just like Elvis) sang those words back in 1977 after Elvis was found
British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online - free
I'm just re-posting a Press Release from the British Library on the basis that this looked like it might be of interest to people here:
Rowdy pub sessions in England and Yanggona ceremonial chants in Fiji
•Rare, unpublished and out-of-print recordings launched online
•28,000
Pieta Brown, Bo Ramsey and this thing about a four-letter state of mind called Iowa thats been on my mind lately
Three hundred and sixty four days after they took down the planes, I was back home in California from serving six years in Minnesota. (Not to make it sound like I was away in prison because it was a career decision, but it's really cold up there and
Cheek Sparger, A Funny Little Road
Between Dallas and Fort Worth, in the mid-cities area, is a road named Cheek Sparger. Twenty five years ago it was a country lane bordered by trees and fields and a few farms.
Now there is a shopping center at one end, million dollar homes at the other, and
Iris Dement Sings in her Mama's Opry
(originally appeared in San Diego Troubadour)
With a woman it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river it goes right on. A woman looks at it like that.
-Ma Joad in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
Who can say just
Album Review: Joshua James--Build Me This
Joshua James—Build Me This—Intelligent Noise—2009
Yes, I know it’s hard to get past that album cover. Is that Noxema? Has he rolled himself in flour? If this reverse minstrelsy? Is he covering his face with curdled milk like Halle in Beloved? Or is he just trying