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Joy Division – Lost and Found
Hey Peeps, Just recorded Episode the 13th for Coincidence Control Network today! If you haven’t followed the podcast you have some catching up to do! CCN features Joseph Matheney, Kim Monaghan, Ken Eakins and yours truly in weekly round table discussions about current counterculture. It’s really a blast and we’ve been getting amazing feedback. If [...]
Sesame Street Hustle
Hello friends, Have you ever noticed that Oscar the Grouch looks like he’s made outta weed? Seriously. Of course, I don’t think this is intentional. Frank Oz probably had a run of the green shaggy stuff laying around and the rest is history. Along with groovy music and the kind of social awareness that came [...]
Happy Birthday, You Handsome Devil
Welcome, initiates… This week, we celebrate the birthday of Jimmy Page: a guitar hero, an occult dabbler, and – just like Jesus – a Capricorn. Page was a well-known session guitarist before working with the Yardbirds and – of course – Led Zeppelin. One of the most influential musician/songwriters of all time, Page has been [...]
Sleepless Book Club – George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Hey, faithful readers. Long time no see. I’ve been slammed with new projects, but I’m planning on revealing more about those as I rev this engine of pixel blasting fury back up after a protracted intermission. I have so many new happenings underway that I’m not really sure where to start. Picking at random… ArtNowNashville.com [...]
New Tracks from the Man in Black
Hey Y’all, I’ve been reading and writing a lot about Johnny Cash recently. Of course, all the scribbling has me listening a fair share as well. Cash is pretty unique in the American pantheon of singer/songwriters, effortlessly bridging the gaps between rock, country, gospel and folk in a manner that may only be comparable to [...]
Sing a New Song
Happy Sunday, Sunday morning. Make that Sunday afternoon… I was in Murfreesboro, TN last night recording 2 new songs in one of the big studios down at MTSU. This was our 3rd recording session and we had a lot of fun recording drummer Noah Hungate on two new songs. I’m still working on my latest [...]
Troubles
What up, homies? Just ran into my homegirl Em at the grocery. She was getting berries. I was getting water and wine. I came home and whipped up a quick bowl of Vietnamese style soup with shrimp using a stock I made from a pound of chicken feet just yesterday. Outstanding. Get some chicken feet [...]
The Sleepless Book Club – The Legacy of Alan Lomax
If you’ve heard any of my music, you’ve heard my love of folk music. My mother and father were not music lovers, but their tiny record collection included a country album (Marty Robbins’ Gunsfighter Ballads) an RnB masterpiece (Ray Charles’ What’d I Say) and a folk record (Peter, Paul and Mary Live) that included “Blowin’ [...]
Life with Keith Richards
Inside the dust jacket of his new book, Keith Richards has left an inscription: “This is the Life. Believe it or not, I haven’t forgotten any of it. Thanks and praises, Keith Richards” Perhaps the most highly-anticipated rock autobiography ever, Life is the most detailed account we have yet of the life of the legendary [...]
London Calling Again
The image of Paul Simonon smashing his bass on the cover of The Clash’s London Calling is one of the most iconic images in all of rock ‘n’ roll. While you can’t always judge a record by its cover, in this case, you can. London Calling is a great collection in a great looking package, [...]
