Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Treat Her Right, "Just one of them songs that hangs around"
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Roy Head and the Traits made some pretty square-headed moves in their day. They all attended High School. They hired an undertaker named Edr...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Johnny Paycheck, The Real Mr. Heartache
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About the actor Charles Bronson, someone once asked “was he a good-looking ugly man, or just an ugly good-looking man?” Similarly, about Joh...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Hollywood Suicide #3: Al Mulock
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Al Mulock, probably the ugliest so far of our “Hollywood Suicides.” As a fixture in Spaghetti Westerns, he might seem an unlikely fit for th...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Rufus Thomas: Ain't I'm Clean?
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Rufus Thomas was born on this date in 1917. Gemini Spacecraft would like to to honor the man who scored early hits for Sun and Stax Records,...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Twine Time: The Deliverance Was Good
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So maybe Alvin Cash was not the Hardest Workin’ Man in Show Business. In fact, maybe “Twine Time” could go down as one of the easiest payda...
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Lookout Mars! You're Our Next Stop
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Got a random twin-pack of B-sides today, far-out rockers with an outer space theme. Don’t confuse these with your more general paeans to tee...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Gospel of Riff, Jazzbo Books Part 2: i, paid my dues
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Originally published in 1967, the full title is i, paid my dues good Times… no Bread a story of ja zz and some of it’s followers, shyster ag...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Gospel of Riff, Jazzbo Books Part 1: Really the Blues
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Really the Blues tells the story of dixieland clarinetist, Jewish hepcat, merchant of muggles, ghost of old Harlem, and professor of jive, ...
Friday, February 6, 2009
RIP Lux Interior
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It's taken a couple of days for Gemini Spacecraft to get around to posting the requisite obit for Lux Interior, who died Wednesday of a ...
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