I first came across Frank Frost via author Robert Palmer’s seminal blues doc Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads . Years later, just prior to beginning research on my guidebook to the Delta Blues Trail , I was reintroduced to the blues harp player . […]
Month: November 2010
Gene Parsons :: Kindling
Sometimes it’s the less visible members of a great band who turn out to be the most interesting. Gene Parsons was the drummer with the Byrds from 1968 to 1972. If you’ve […]
Life is a Problem :: Mississippi Records MR-017
“Subject…rock & roll. Can I get an amen?” So begins Elder Charles D. Beck , the ‘singing evangelist,’ on “Rock & Roll Sermon, pt. 1 & 2“– arguably the most well known track found […]
The Rock*A*Teens / The Atlanta Series Continued
Prior to my buying into the heathen bargain that is Los Angeles, ye olde Drunkard grew up in the wooded enclave that is Atlanta, GA. Recently, through the magic of […]
Horse Feathers :: Drain You/Bonnet of Briars 7″
Beginning in 2006 with their debut, Words Are Dead, the Portland, Oregon based Horse Feathers have churned out three LPs of pensive folk music for the Kill Rock Stars label. Last week the trio released the Drain You […]
Eddie Hinton :: Dear Y’all: The Songwriting Sessions
An artist that will forever go down as one of the key architects of Southern soul, the late Eddie Hinton is about as swampy as the genre gets. A veritable Muscle Shoals […]
Neil Young: Needle And The Damage Done (Johnny Cash Show)
Happy Birthday, Neil Young. Taken from Neil’s 1971 appearance on the Johnny Cash Show
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM , channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight […]
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (Criterion Collection)
I am as big a Netflix advocate as you will find, yet I am also a collector of things; records, books, photographs, and, yes, films. When it comes to the […]
It Goes Like That? But I Thought It Went Like This?
“Lost my shit, trying to act casual.” For years…years…that is what I thought David Byrne was singing on “Crosseyed And Painless” off Talking Heads Remain In Light . Nope. It turned out he […]
The Strange Tale of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.
Last June, over a round of drinks, my friend Matt excitedly told me the tale of his label Light In The Attic’s upcoming release; that of the reissue of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O. Light In The […]
Corin Tucker :: The AD Interview
When you walk away from a band that Griel Marcus once dubbed “the best rock and roll band in America,” people can get a bit antsy when you go almost […]
Diversions :: The Autumn Defense on the Polaroid SX-70
( Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) The Polaroid SX-70 , the camera Pat Sansone […]
Lissie :: The Aquarium Drunkard Session
Last March, driving back to L.A. from Texas after SXSW, there was one thing the four of us riding down the highway in an old Ford could all agree upon: […]
Megafaun :: Heretofore
Megafaun’s breadth of style has been a hallmark of all its releases thus far, but the Heretofore EP is possibly the best example yet of the rambling, shifting and well-sequenced tendencies […]