A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
From Roz Larman on the Folk Alliance western regional list: FolkScene will be paying tribute to Utah… [Sunday,] May 25. We have a wonderful concert from McCabe’s that dates back to Feb 14, 1987. It was shortly after the passing of Kate Wolf. He talks a lot about Kate. The program airs from 7-9:00 PM … Read more
Bruce Phillips, aka U. Utah Phillips, The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, passed away at 11:30 pm Friday night, May 23. I found the folowing on KVMR’s web site. Wednesday, May 14, 2008 A Note From Utah Dear Friends, Utah here, with a rambling missive pandect and organon regarding my current reality. At no … Read more
I wish I remembered who told me to rent The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico so I could thank him or her. Very funny Canadian mockumentary about a fucked-up Canadian country singer, with Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Ronnie Hawkins, Levon Helm, and others appearing as themselves. Very well done. And in the bonus … Read more
In Baltimore, on Jerry’s birthday. More on Lee Johnson’s orchestral adaptation of GD themes here. And here’s a review of the CD from an earlier blog post.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. Thanks to George Lyons for sending it!
I was accidentally subjected to NBC11‘s 11pm news coverage of the California Supreme Court’s decision (PDF) in support of gay marriage. Jeeziz. First, we have Tom Sinkovitz confronting SF Mayor Gavin Newsom about the political ramifications, after explaining that the mayor is “eyeing a run for governor.” Newsom gave a fairly convincing STFU answer: “This … Read more
What, only one? Amazingly stupid post by one Emily Freifeld, on a washpost political blog called Channel ’08: The 2008 Election on Video. The hundreds of comments provide an interesting cross-section of the blog-posting polity…