Thursday Variety Hour
WordPress, the blogging software behind this blog, has a cool feature that snatches comment spam and tucks it away so I can delete it. I have a question. Who are the people that spend their days creating this stuff?? What…
(Not So) Quiet Faith from the Woes
More goodness from NYC band The Woes. For a powerful, stompin’, folky-Poguesish romp, listen to this tune off of their latest CD, That Coke Oven March. The Ickmusic Stamp of Approval is rendered upon this one (dingggg)… Start your day…
Pete Droge, Part 2
I like it when this happens. You know when you hear a great song for the first time, a tune that just connects with you? Where you have the innate ability to know that you’ll be listening to the song…
Notting Hillbillies in Newcastle
Reading the paper this morning, I was informed that it’s Mark Knopfler’s 57th birthday today. I’ve been meaning to get this show posted, so what better opportunity than today? The Notting Hillbillies was Knopfler’s post-Dire Straits group that he formed…
Rag Mama Rag
For those curious to hear the Seeger Sessions take on The Band’s “Rag Mama Rag”, look no further! Bruce debuted it May 30th in Columbus, Ohio. I also heard it in Phoenix on Saturday night, and to be totally honest,…
115 Degrees and Bruce
No, you’re not hallucinating, it’s going to be 115 degrees here in the Phoenix area today. This is the time of year when we desert dwellers seriously question our sanity. On top of that, it’s Springsteen time tonight at the…
Marvin’s Temple and Shrine
If you listened to AAA radio in the mid 90’s here in the U.S., you probably heard this tune by Marvin Etzioni. Etzioni released three solo albums under the name ‘Marvin’ after leaving Lone Justice. He was one of the…
Mellencamp’s Big Daddy
Damn the torpedoes, tonight my attention turns to John Mellencamp, and a couple of gems off his 1989 release ‘Big Daddy’. I’ve always paid attention to John’s work, and have several of his albums, though I really haven’t paid much…
Bruce goes back to Freehold
In November of ’96, Bruce returned to his hometown, Freehold, New Jersey, to perform at a benefit for the St. Rose of Lima School. It was his first performance there in nearly 30 years. He wrote a song especially for…
Listen to my Banjo (The Woes & Marah)
So I download a helluva lot of music from MP3 Blogland. So much so that sometimes I don’t actually hear the tunes until months later when I’m kickin’ back listening to my mp3 collection on shuffle. It was recently that…
