Pictured above is British comic Professor Stanley Unwin, aka Codlington Corthusite, aka the Chancellor of Vulgaria, inventor of his own lang...

During her brief run on the screen, Pina Pellicer was more well-known in Mexico and Europe than the US. Daughter of an affluent Mexico City ...

When in "High Water Everywhere," Charley Patton sings “the water was rising, up to my front door,” you know the end is near. It se...

Her career began auspiciously enough. Based on her skinny, hippy vagabond good looks, and her power to convey that vibe, she won parts in Mo...

It's happened before, and for a while now he'd been threatening to do it again. Tim Warren, il duce of the Crypt family of fine reco...

Like a lot of culture vultures with an appetite for so-called Americana, I'm ambivalent about the sticks. I'll sing along to Terry F...

By now, thirty years after the release of their first single, Jeff Conolly's band the Lyres have become sorta like their namesake ancien...

I ain't no autogaph collector, or handwriting analyzer, but here's my favorite show-biz signature, scrawled by... Well, you can read...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins & Cinque Lee in a still from Mystery Train. Screamin' Jay's suit from Lansky Bros., Memphis, TN.