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KEXP radio/youtube channel have almost sole responsibility for keeping me from withdrawing into the comfortably numb confines of my usual listening habits. They found Big Thief for me, and in the suggestion box of the vagaries of the youtube algorithm, the AI made an astute leap of faith and suggested I might enjoy listening to […]
MoreFor his partial native blood, his biker leathers and his uncanny ability to converse intelligently despite having drunk more 151 rum than any human should attempt, Billy was a redneck. A Minnesotan, dyed in the wool iron range hillbilly who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into polite company. He never did quite manage […]
MoreI will be honest here, I love music. I love music with a passion that is probably unhealthy. I love music like I love my guitars and cups of tea and foggy San Francisco mornings. I love music, but I rarely listen to anything made after 1995. The day Kurt Cobain died was really the […]
MoreLiving on the road, mostly in campgrounds across the USA means a continually changing cast of neighbors to avoid. There is an unspoken rule of leave a space between you and someone else camping, if it is possible. However sure as birds fly or pigs like mud you will regularly find someone who breaks this […]
MoreYou look just like a pirate, and unwilling buccaneer With your hat covering one eye and over one ear… Your scars say you are a swashbuckler, baby With your uneasy grace: It’s written in the angle of your hips Its drawn in the lines of your face. The dagger on your hand, your branded lucky […]
MoreAin’t it always the way, the girls write the great songs…and the boy’s steal em, and take all the limelight. It is a pet peeve of mine that Shake Sugaree, Freight Train and Baby It Ain’t No Lie are known as Grateful Dead songs, when in fact they belong to the late great Elizabeth Cotten, […]
MoreWe’re driving down the road again Last bath I had was in a bucket of tears Driving down the road again 1000 miles of blacktop And hot chord fears I’m driving down the road again Strip malls, strip bars Strip lights and railroad cars Held together with strips of gum And don’t you think we’d […]
MoreI thought I might amuse myself by making a podcast. I set up anchor, and started to read out some blog posts. Friends, I could not do it! I’ve played music live, I’ll happily sing songs, and subject people to my covers of Moonshiner and Hang me Oh Hang me (the latter by the influential […]
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