"Music soothes the savage beast. It has no color. That's where I saw God." --Herman Hitson Herman Hitson, born in...
Herman Hitson: Let The Gods Sing
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Dispatches
Buick Roadmaster
Essence of old America right here when the cars weren't run on computers. You had to turn the radio dial yourself to...
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
Lowside of The Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns In 2009, I interviewed Barney Hoskyns after his book...
George Plimpton’s Hank Aaron: One for the Record (The Inside Story of Baseball’s Greatest Home Run)
When Plimpton died in 2003, at 76, Hunter S. Thompson wrote: “You didn’t want to let him down, and George had extremely high standards. Every moment of being in his company was part of my Education.”
Benmont Tench: The Melancholy Season
The Melancholy Season sounds like a sad farewell as you look through old photographs of a long lost friend.
Hank Crawford’s Indigo Blue
Hank Crawford’s Indigo Blue was recorded at JAC Studio in New York City on August 22-23, 1983. Crawford arranged the sessions. The supergroup of musicians on this vintage album include Crawford (alto sax, piano), Dr. John (piano, organ), Melvin Sparks (guitar), Wilbur Bascomb (bass), Bernard Purdie (drums) and a horn section featuring Martin Banks, Danny Moore, David “Fathead” Newman and Howard Johnson. This entire laid-back recording clocks in at thirty-five minutes.
Willie Nelson: The Complete Atlantic Sessions
WILLIE NELSON: THE COMPLETE ATLANTIC SESSIONS “If America had one voice, it would be Willie’s…” - Emmylou Harris...
The Pines Bar: Hilliard, FL
Hilliard, Florida. I'm sure the Pines Bar jumped in its day with an interesting batch of characters, and there's...
Stanley Booth Has Left the Building (January 5, 1942-December 19, 2024)
“Send poker players to the graveyard Dig my grave with the ace of spades I want twelve polices in my funeral march...
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
"I will pay one million dollars. Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia." --El Jefe 2024 marks the fiftieth...
Billy Bob Thornton Stars in the Paramount Series Landman
"You wouldn't want to have my job any week." --Tommy Norris Landman, a new Paramount series, begins on Sunday,...
The Boxmasters: Love & Hate In Desperate Places
"People in front of their TV sets Watching hell no one forgets." --"Somebody's Hurtin' Tonight" Love & Hate In...