Used Cars from Hayward, Wisconsin
Here’s a video I just received from the fine folks over at Rogue Barrister Records from Lumber Jam Music Festival in Hayward, Wisconsin from last August 2011. Kevin Martinez joins me on upright bass as we lead a short jam on Used Cars. Enjoy!
Good Morning: John Fahey
Good morning Monday, welcome another week. Here’s a beautiful song clip from guitarist John Fahey to help guide you along until Friday. Technically speaking, Fahey is not complicated, not doing anything most fingerpickers can’t accomplish if they’ve studied up on Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis and a few others, but what is indescribable in [...]
Edward Abbey: Freedom & Wilderness
“We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout troop deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. Even the maddest murderer of the sweetest wife should get a chance for a run to the sanctuary of [...]
Henry Dumas, Poet – 1934-1968
Its 1968, seven weeks after Martin Luther King’s assassination and civil unrest between the police and blacks is escalating. Poet Henry Dumas – jazz enthusiast – has just left a rehearsal of Sun Ra’s Arkestra in Harlem. He boards a train, sits down and, under a case of mistaken identity, is shot in the chest [...]
Zephyr Pub
Thank y’all for coming out to the Zephyr Pub in Kent, Ohio on Saturday. I saw a lot of familiar faces and plenty of new ones. Thank you all for your support! You probably noticed I had a drummer and bassist: Eric Baltrinic (drums) and Kevin Martinez (bass). They’re both incredibly gifted musicians and contribute [...]
Barry Hannah & Larry Brown
Here’s an interview with Barry Hannah, Larry Brown and Brad Watson that’s well worth a listen. Click here. Barry Hannah talks about the current state of literature; how the majority of modern novels would be better served as short stories. There’s some interesting commentary from Brad Watson and Larry Brown, both of whom published short [...]
Last Year’s Language
T.S. Eliot said something along the lines of: “Last years words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” I welcome the new voice and will be open to hear it when it presents itself. I burned back the weeds, sowed the field and am now reaping a full harvest… Creatively, [...]