Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
“I don’t care what he did with his women. I don’t care what he did when he drank. I want to hear just one note From his lonesome old throat. Has anybody here seen Hank?” –The Waterboys New Orleans is swimming in music of every imaginable genre, but old time country-and-western gets short shrift. It’s just not a part of who [...]
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Some albums are just too good to let slip away beneath the sands of time, so each week Bill Melville pulls one out, dusts it off and offers it up for your renewed consideration ... With all other original members...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
Singer, songwriter, musician Gib started playing music when he was fourteen. He founded a few bands in the early 60's like Darrell, Gib and Ernie, Four Young Men and The Castaways. A lot of singles were released by the bands. After those bands broke up Gib formed with Gene Parsons Cajun Gib & Gene. They recorded an album (with Clarence White) which was released years later (1973). In 1967 Gib...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Once again it’s time for a special guest to take the reigns of the B List . This week, guitar-maker Andrew Olson of AO Guitars shares a list of his favorite Fender players. AO Guitars makes high-quality instruments for the discerning musician… Hey everybody! I can’t say how thrilled I am to be back on the B List for a second edition of AO’s Top 10. If you recall the last one...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
A Cross Lanes man was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting his niece. Michael Gene Parsons, 41, is being held at South Central Regional Jail. Nitro police arrived at a home on 15th Street at 3 p.m. Monday in response to a report of a sexual assault.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
The Byrds were still a year and change from their messy end when they played the newly unearthed London show on Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 (Sundazed). This is the (Untitled)-era Byrds — singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn, drummer Gene Parsons, bassist Skip Battin and lead guitarist Clarence White — in sparkling last-hurrah mettle, mixing space [...]
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Scotty loved the idea of digging into the archives yesterday so much so that we’ve decreed it Classic Rock week around here. Sorry to spring it on you without any big fanfare or ticker tape parade, but just sit back and enjoy the gems we throw at ya over the next few days. Today I thought [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Like The Byrds? Well, you'll be pleased to learn that previously unreleased archive material from the notorious Bryd brothers is due for release soon. A recording of an appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London '71 (the Roger McGuinn,...
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