Tim Buchanan with Dusk – Grinnin’

Tim Buchanan with Dusk – Grinnin’

Country music didn’t stay country for long. As soon as the Carters could rub two coins together, Maybelle and the girls left A.P. stranded on Clinch Mountain and decamped to the Nashville suburb of Madison, where their neighbors included Hank Snow and Colonel Tom...

Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman

Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman

I first heard "Wichita Lineman" at the bowling alley. Not the new one. The old lanes out on Washington Avenue across from the Cee Bee grocery store. The building is still there. It would have been a Saturday night, because that's the only night we ever went bowling....

What the Eeph?

What the Eeph?

If you cranked up a television on a Saturday night in the early 70’s and flipped through the channels, you inevitably encountered a show called Hee Haw. And if you lingered there long enough, you beheld a strange and wondrous sight: two men, often standing in a barn...

More Sh*t Your Dad Watched

More Sh*t Your Dad Watched

Hi kids! Welcome back to another exciting episode of Sh*t Your Dad Watched. Tonight we examine the life of Gidget Lawrence, whose television career spanned nine years and three series. So grab a spot on the couch, pull the tinfoil cover off your Swanson's TV dinner,...

Sh*t Your Dad Watched

Sh*t Your Dad Watched

‘Tis the season to make lists and check them twice. And, at some point in his or her life, every pop culture blogger is required to make a list of television shows. Best shows, worst shows, best shows cancelled after one season ... you get the picture. And these days...

Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby

Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby

I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The following year they arrived near the bottom of Willamette Week’s Best New Band poll of music industry insiders, barely edging...

Alluvium – My Hometown

Alluvium – My Hometown

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. -Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Three hundred million years ago Rudman County lay beneath a calcium carbonate-rich sea. The waters were shallow, less than six feet deep in many places, and they moved across the shelf with...

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