“I don’t want to hear none of your tales, boy… Too many tales come from these mountains and everwhere…”* The Ozark Mountain...

Teenage Boogie - Webb Pierce

 The Voola's debyoola, released 1958. Oh Baby - Esquerita  Capitol Ad, 1958 Esquerita & Friend in New Orleans, ...

Image courtesy Off the Top Rope Productions Repost from Last Year:  March 24th is now National Sputnik Monroe day, commemorating the le...

Huey P. Meaux, aka The Crazy Cajun, record producer, erstwhile resident of Huntsville Penitentiary, and disc jockey broadcasting his last...

Travel the boondocks, go back in time, out past Rackemsack, on the Hamtramck Line. Hear a boogie piano played by a man from the hills....

Mike Edison apparently has a soft spot for book reviewers. Or maybe he just doesn’t want us to sweat the job too hard. As for our port...

"5" Royales in hot pink, 1 Lowman Pauling with Guitar Face This post is largely motivated by the recent circulation on the in...

January seems to be month of Weegee (nee Arthur Fellig, June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968) here in New York, with two exhibitions of the fab...