My Dad – and His Typewriter – Fought in the War on Poverty
And this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America... The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. -- Lyndon Johnson, 1964 This is the richest country on Earth and we have 40 million in...
Stories Hidden in a Baseball Box Score
I never knew my father’s father. He was a lineman for the county, and got himself fried long before I arrived. No one wanted to talk about him. I know him best through a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that he cut from the Nashville Tennessean. He was a baseball...
Leon Russell and the Allman Brothers – Captain Marvel Jones
Captain Marvel, the latest expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU to those in the know), is exploding in a theater near you and I can't wait for it to light up the screen of our local Studio Movie Grill. The traditional Friday dinner-and-a-movie date night...
New Riders of the Purple Sage – Dead Flowers (Live)
The marriage of rock and country looks like a good idea when the wedding invitation arrives in the US Mail. The patriarch of each family enters the ceremony bearing calloused hands, a bottle of whiskey tucked into the back pocket of his overalls, and tales of plowing...
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
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?
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
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
‘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
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...
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