(Photo by Erick Anderson) “You gotta be from the South to know about boogers,” Charlie Daniels cracked. When Daniels strapped his guitar on five years ago at a show in Manassas, Virginia, he derived great suspense as a storyteller, recalling the mysterious holes in the ground that attract bugs, skeeters and boogers in “The Legend […]
When you see the press photo of Nocona on the band’s website, you’ll see that the members if nothing else were influenced by the fashion of Flying Burrito Brothers. And yes, it may leave you wondering where you can find threads like that. You don’t have to listen to much of the new album Los […]
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By Bill Bentley Bob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy Ways. “Today tomorrow and yesterday too / the flowers are dying like all things do…” Bob Dylan has done hoodooed the hoodoo man on his heart-splitting new album, which begins with the aforementioned words, and lets it be known he sees the end and doesn’t […]
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So now the President wants a “National Heroes Garden” eh? I guess he’s been studying fascist dictators again, has moved on from Mussolini, and discovered Francisco Franco’s “Valle de los Caidos” up the hill from Madrid, The Valley of the Fallen, which Franco billed as a national act of reconciliation after the Spanish Civil War, […]
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Like a lot of musicians, Lara Taubman grew up surrounded by music. At some point she turned toward painting and curating art, but the music bug is a funny thing. It has a way of getting inside people and setting up camp. In fact, if you talk to a lot of musicians, you’ll learn that […]
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Home is a different concept for a lot of musicians. A lot of times, home for a musician is where their stuff stays when they are on tour. (When tours are a thing, of course.) Other musicians divide their time between numerous hometowns. Theresa Lucia is one of the latter, dividing her time between New […]
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From the opening chords of The Chaser, the new album from Secret Emchy Society, you realize you have been transported to a special world. You have walked through the proverbial swinging doors and entered a place where the band is playing a mixture of the feverish rockabilly of Elvis and Charlie, the Bakersfield boldness of […]
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By Jeff Burger The Explorers Club, The Explorers Club and To Sing and Be Born Again. The Explorers Club, led by singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist Jason Brewer, haven’t exactly been prolific: until last month, they’d issued only three full-length albums since 2008. So it’s a bit of a surprise that the group—whose only original […]
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The Turtles – The White Whale Albums When I was a young buyer of 45’s I thought The Turtles were great. Melodic, witty, uniquely harmonic, & clever. This wasn’t just any pop band. I was a big flipside explorer of 45’s. That’s where I discovered weird innovative songs like “Rugs of Woods & Flowers,” “Buzz […]
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There is a famous series of John Lennon quotes from an interview in the early 1970s in which the former Beatle, when referring to the origins of rock and roll and of the Beatles, says that “The blues is a chair, not a design for a chair, or a better chair… it is the first […]
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