Trump is back. Sam Kuffel is gone. FEMA is next. Plus: ‘Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg’ (2024), ‘Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers’ (2025), and ‘A Real Pain’ (2024).
Another Week: Number 109
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Another Week: Number 70
My backyard continues to occupy my mind. Plus: “How Fascism Works,’ by Jason Stanley, and ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere,’ by Warren Zanes.
Another Week: Number 69
Gardening decisions get finalized: I’ll plant salvias and petunias to attract hummingbirds. Also, Alejandro Escovedo on ‘WTF with Marc Maron’ and Bruce Springsteen night on my TV.
‘Neil Young Journeys’ (2011 Jonathan Demme movie)
It helps if you're into Neil Young. Back in the mid-1970s there was this guy Brian, who wore his dirty blonde hair down to the shoulders of his Army surplus jacket. He would come around the park across from my house carrying albums, like After the Gold Rush. My mom...
‘Muscle Shoals’ (2013 music documentary movie)
Muscle Shoals is a 2013 documentary about a legendary recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, way up in the northwest corner of that state, a 150-mile drive from Memphis, Tennessee. Actually, it's a documentary about two legendary recording studios in that little...
‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World’ (2011 movie)
George Harrison, dead now almost eleven years, has remained relatively unstudied — compared with, say, fellow Beatle John Lennon — despite the richness and depth Harrison contributed to the Beatles' music, his significant post-Beatles work, and his generally...
‘Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here’
Over the weekend, I was surprised to hear that another of our nephews is a huge Pink Floyd fan. Of course our nephew Elliot, 25, has been smitten with Dark Side of the Moon for years — to the point of buying import copies on vinyl, getting a Dark Side of the Moon...
Alejandro Escovedo’s songs of love at Turner Hall
My favorite radio station in the world is Milwaukee Public Radio WUWM, and liking WUWM on Facebook paid off nicely when I won one of their concert ticket contests to see Alejandro Escovedo at Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom this past Thursday night. On the way up, my...
Drive-By Truckers: Austin City Limits CD/DVD combo
I love Drive-By Truckers, and I love this song, "The Righteous Path." The clip above is from their just-released CD/DVD combo Live from Austin, TX, recorded live at that legendary Texas PBS showcase, Austin City Limits. The package...
‘A Dustland Fairytale’: The Killers on Letterman with orchestra
In case you missed it this past Monday (May 11), here are The Killers performing "A Dustland Fairytale," with orchestra, on the Late Show With David Letterman. We know nothing about The Killers, but apparently they're from Las Vegas. At any rate, it's certainly a...
Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo, Drive-By Truckers at Summerfest
It's been a long time since I attended Summerfest. There are a lot of people close to my advanced age who whine about the crowds and the excessive drinking or the price of beer, but I generally enjoy festivals and music — humanity and all. I guess I've just had other...
Warren Zevon biography: ‘I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead’ by Crystal Zevon
I have been a Warren Zevon fan since "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Werewolves of London" first hit my radio in 1978, and I even had the honor of being mistaken for him at one of Jackson Browne's Summerfest appearances around that...
Rolling Stones movie: ‘Shine a Light’ (2008, Martin Scorsese)
I was bouncing around on the Web yesterday when I saw an ad for yet another Rolling Stones concert movie that's apparently coming out this Friday in IMAX theaters. Now, I have been a Rolling Stones fan since I received Goat's Head Soup as a Christmas present at age 13...
Back Door Slam: Young British band’s got the blues guitar
My brother-in-law Wayne, out there in Columbus, Ohio, is something of a music connoisseur. Wayne enjoys finding little-known talent. A couple of weeks ago, he gifted me with Mescalito, the major label debut from Ryan Bingham, a...
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: Acoustic guitar, a capella, The Muppets
What spawned my Web wandering — and my tenacious earworm — was my friend Duwayne putting this "Bohemian Rhapsody acoustic" video on his MySpace page. It seemed harmless enough when I began to watch it yesterday morning. The guy sits down, reels off a darned skilled...
Elvis Presley microphone, Sun Studio, Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee — Pictured above is the Shure 55 microphone said to have been used by Elvis Presley, and beyond it, the control room window at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service (now known as Sun Studio), the...
Sun Studio recording studio, Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee — The recording studio at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service (now known as Sun Studio) where some of the greatest records in music history were recorded. Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny...