It’s old news to the hip; Lee Hazlewood is dead. He was 78, from Oklahoma; like Woody Guthrie, a hilarious fatalist; like all Oklahoma people, had one of those voices you hear once and can’t never forget; like Paul Robeson and had a preference for epically scoped 30 minutes LPs; like Scott Walker.
Let’s do this […]
read the complete articlewithout further ado, the long awaited “we’re back online with storage space and all the old songs have been moved to the new server and all the old post edited to reflect the change in servers” announcement; with just one “gotcha” I’m on the world slowest internet connection, so the old songs are still uploading…give’em […]
read the complete articleIn case you didn’t hear: Syd Barrett died today. He was now 60. In case you were unaware: Syd Barrett founded Pink Floyd. He was then 20. Personally, I think he managed his strangest and most delightful work after leaving Pink Floyd.
I’m not going to try writing some big biographical obituary of the man. I […]
read the complete articleNikki Sudden died in his sleep yesterday (3/26), a little less than a decade after his brother, Epic Soundtracks.
As well as being the rad human being illustrated by the linked article, Nikki headed the Swell Maps & later, the more ruminative Jacobites. He had a bunch of solo albums under his belt, too. Try the […]