Tag Archives: Music
The Riddle of Robert Johnson
Here at Insomnia, we love the strange crossroads of hardscrabble blues and high weirdness that come together in the life of legendary singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Johnson. The story of the blues pioneer finds the gifted musician rejected by his family, living the reckless, itinerant life of a musician, drinking heavily, womanizing, dying mysteriously and infamously associating [...]
Bill Hicks’s DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
20 years ago, comedian Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer and the greatest comic of his generation disappeared forever. Hicks was working on a new CD when he experienced the first symptoms of the disease that would take his life. That project found Hicks mixing his stand-up with his own musical recordings to create a [...]
Joe Nolan’s Paradise
Here is the premiere of the new video for my song “Paradise.” Conceived, directed and edited from public domain footage found at Archive.org, “Paradise” combines images of San Francisco in 1941 with shots from the city captured in 1968 during that era’s counter-cultural revolution. The video takes the song’s declarative chorus as a jumping-off point [...]
Bob Dylan Goes Back To College
Here is a recent music review I was asked to write. That’s the kind of thing I do every now and then. Gun for hire. King’s magician. Doodler of small words… The first track on Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 is an incomplete recording of “Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance” (Henry [...]
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 [...]
