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JACK SPANN TO RELEASE BEAUTIFUL MAN FROM MARS Making The Strange and Fabulous Digestible One Song At A Time New York City, NY March 16th, 2017—Jack Spann has had an incredible couple of years. The Saint Louis native has lived in New York City for the last 16 years and established himself as one of […]
In 1967, The Cowsills made a big enough splash with their million selling record The Rain, The Park and Other Things that they were booked for ten appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. In their first appearance (October 29, 1967), there were audio problems and the band appeared to be miming for 20 to […]
In a moment of channel surfing, I recently landed upon the movie version of the 1960s counterculture musical Hair staring Treat Williams. I never saw the movie when it came out and I vaguely remember Treat Williams involvement, but I am more familiar with him from his role in the SciFi / horror classic […]
Joe Bonamassa recently posted this clip of Ian Anderson’s performance of Aqualung with one of the vintage versions of Jethro Tull – I agree with his assessment – SMART rock but FUN rock – k
My mother has always loved to sing and even at age 93, she is unhappy when her Troubadour singing group fails to meet. The Troubadours are a group at her residence (Brookridge Heights in Marquette) that gather on Sundays to sing and on the occasions when they don’t meet, she is always disappointed. It […]
How does a Beatle stay undercover in New York City? Paul McCartney grew a beard, dressed down in a GI coat and jeans looking every bit “like just another junkie.” He and Linda had decamped from London to escape the legal wranglings and vitriol that resulted from his suit against his bandmates in order to […]
“I hit the bottle,” he admits. “I hit the substances.” He was eaten up with anger – at himself, at the outside world. He could describe it only as a barrelling, empty feeling rolling across his soul. The excerpt above could be applied to any number of people down on their luck. Paul McCartney […]
Time is a tricky subject and there are so many musical tie-ins that pop to mind, coming up with a catchy title got a little tricky. A title based on Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is (Chicago), Time is Tight (Booker T and the MGs), Time is on My Side (Rolling Stones), Time […]
Saturday at the Singing Hills Stage kicked off with an artist I was not familiar with. Reading Seth Walker’s biography was like a geography lesson: born in North Carolina, he has also spent time in Jacksonville, Florida, Austin, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and his current home port, New Orleans, Louisiana. His music is likewise from all […]
Our usual modus operandi for August is to dust off the broadcast board and spend the week before the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival cranking out tunes by past, present, and even possible future artists who have (or might) grace the PMMF stages. As a result, I end up with a pretty good working knowledge of […]