By Marv Wells No singing. No backup band. No accompaniment of any kind. Just exactly what the album cover says… 6- & 12-String Guitar. Pure and simple. Forty-three years ago, a young Leo Kottke recorded his second album, his first and only for Takoma Records, an obscure label founded by an eccentric master of the guitar, John Fahey. Who knew…
Review: Bill Monroe 100th Year Celebration: Live At Bean Blossom
By Joe Ross – A CD sampler of live cuts from a bluegrass festival can rarely capture the real feeling and spirit of those special musical moments when bands play their hearts out to thousands of fans. However, second best to actually being there, some favorite LPs of mine were those double-disc sets with an array of professional bluegrass bands…
Sun209: The week in Tweets
New Townes Van Zandt biography captures his spirit and legacy http://t.co/QpwyXcCe # Feb. 3, 1959: Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. http://t.co/vlUte1wF # Sun209 will be reporting from @Cayamo this week. Watch for news and photos. http://t.co/Q1ICrTZT #cayamo #
Feb. 3, 1959:The music lives on
By Marv Wells “Clear Lake/Mason City” the highway sign reads. How many times have I driven past this exit on 1-35 over the past 30+ years and said “Someday I’ll check it out?” “It” was the site of Buddy Holly’s plane crash in 1959. Somehow I’d gotten the impression that Clear Lake was a ways off, thirty miles or more.…