News item: Rhino is going to re-release both of the Traveling Wilburys’ albums in June.
According to Billboard, Volumes 1 and 3 will be put out as a CD/DVD package with extra tracks, a documentary and music videos, or as a vinyl set, or as a digital bundle.
A while back, I learned both albums were long [...]
It’s been an interesting few days.
– We’re driving up to have hamburgers at a little country tavern on Sunday, and we almost run over a pheasant that is in no hurry to get out of the middle of the road.
– I’ve lived in Wisconsin almost all my life, and only Sunday did I eat muskie [...]
Today’s selection has been around the block a few times since Walter Jacobs and Lonnie Carter — the Mississippi Sheiks — wrote it and recorded in 1930.
It’s been a bluegrass tune, covered by Bill Monroe and Don McLean.
It’s been electric blues, covered by Howlin’ Wolf and the Grateful Dead.
Today, it’s rocking country blues, with the [...]
Last week, the fine folks at Echoes in the Wind delivered an excellent post on one of my faves from way back, Lou Ann Barton. She’s a Texas blues/rock/country singer with a scorching voice.
That post featured a full vinyl rip of her seemingly-out-of-print 1982 album, “Old Enough.”
There must have been a review of “Old Enough” [...]
News item: Columbia Pictures is planning to make a movie based on “The Green Hornet.”
Exciting news for someone who loved “The Green Hornet” when it aired on ABC in 1966 and 1967.
Hope it happens. Not a good track record so far, though. At least two other big studios have tried and failed. The gent who’s [...]
