Retro TV Themes Revisited is an on-going AD feature that aims to mine our long-running collection of past television (aural) glories, cuz they just aren’t making them like they used to. Have at it in the comments.
“Baby, if you’ve ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me. I’m living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati WKRP…I’m [...]
Amazingly, even today, while traveling in and around the Mississippi Delta, you’ll still hear fabled tales of the old bluesmen selling their souls at the crossroads in exchange for supernatural musical gifts. Whereas the Robert Johnson tale has become the most widely known (to the point of ad nauseam), it is in fact more of [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 49: (Intro) Jean-Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ AC Newman – Drink To Me Then Babe ++ Blitzen Trapper – [...]
Just got back to Los Angeles after six weeks on the road and, brother, let me tell you it feels great to be home. Big thanks to AD contributor J. Neas for an excellent series of posts while I was out criss-crossing the country. As of this post its back to business as [...]
Few songwriters have the gift that Jim White has. Channeling the strange and weird side of life into song-stories that are as compelling and moving as they are sometimes disturbing, Jim has helped push the Southern-gothic genre into music and back out into the limelight. His latest album, Transnormal Skiperoo, is a continuation [...]
(note: i’m on the cross-country road trip for six weeks doing research on a book about memphis and the delta blues trail. car jamming is recurring feature that documents random curios along the way)
Welcome to the final (on-the-road) installment of Car Jamming. We’ve been staying in midtown Memphis the past nine days and – [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 48: (Intro) Jean-Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Throw Me The Statue – Your Girlfriend’s Car ++ Talk Demonic – [...]
At times, epiphanies can be a slow process. I had been listening and re-listening to Directions to See a Ghost, the second LP from Austin, Texas’ The Black Angels, for a week at this point. The touchstones are obvious – their name is a Velvet Underground song reference after all and there is [...]
After first hearing her sing, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham once described Marianne Faithfull as “an angel with big tits.” The rest of the world would soon come to know her via her take on early Stones material, and in an early tabloid sense, her very public relationship with Mick Jagger.
Listen below to [...]
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Reverse engineering. It happens a lot when discovering music. You pick up one piece only to find it fell out of somewhere else. Son Volt was my introduction to Uncle Tupelo. Briano Eno my introduction to Roxy Music. And in a connection slightly different (well, very different) from those, Jeff Buckley [...]
This has been a pretty great year to be a fan of The Replacements. In addition to Jim Walsh’s excellent book, All Over But the Shouting, the news had begun to circulate last year that the full catalogue would be getting the remastered/bonus track treatment this year. The first slate of re-issues are [...]
