I’d hoped to have a guest post for you tonight, but the writer declined.
“Dad, my kind of music isn’t for old guys,” Evan said.
Consider yourself dissed. By a 13-year-old.
Our son, Evan, turned 13 today. Our last stop this evening was at Grandpa’s apartment (Ray’s Corner for you regular readers).
There, Evan started rifling through Grandpa’s CDs. [...]
That’s what we’ve long said in the newspaper business. Celebrities and prominent people die in threes.
I vividly recall the summer of 1997. Brian Keith, the actor who played Uncle Bill on the late-’60s sitcom “Family Affair” had just died. A week later, the actor Robert Mitchum died.
The day Mitchum died, I spoke up during one [...]
Sleepy LaBeef, national treasure, is back out on the road.
Come Thursday and Saturday night, he’ll be playing one of America’s classic venues — the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa — at an event that’s part ’50s music revival and part Buddy Holly tribute.
The Surf was the last place Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big [...]
We’re back with another obscure side from the mid-1970s.
Head over to our other blog, The Midnight Tracker, for some more free-form goodness.
It’s Side 1 from “Sequencer,” the 1976 album by electronic music pioneer Larry Fast, who recorded as Synergy. It’s from the days of analog.
Sneak preview: “Classical Gas,” Synergy, from “Sequencer,” 1976.
If you watched Sunday night’s NFC championship game from Lambeau Field, you know it’s been cold here in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
It’s been below zero at night and we’ve had below-zero wind chills during the day for the better part of a week. By some standards, that’s really cold. By our standards, that’s just a little [...]
