Sunshine For Your Ears
The PaisleyTunes Desk is a nice looking cross hatch writing desk. It sits in front of a window that looks out across a garden onto a river (well, river levy – but we pretend like we’re in the reeds) It’s at this desk that the PaisleyTunes Music Machine is oiled and fed, where the incessant […]
A strange collection of women are behind this single visage of an artist. Laura Gibson play strange and homey sounds of folk on her records one at a time in her ’62 Shasta trailer, gone recording studio, presumably so she can escape her fans demanding mail or and chase her muse. Her Shasta apparently triples as a […]
This week I spent on the road enjoying the vistas and freedom of a desert road trip. Since the Old Pueblo is a lonesome wildcat of the South West, it’s culture rarely escapes past the surrounding desert winds and this visit seemed to be a great opportunity to explore some of the border-folk I’d missed […]
14 tracks of Franco-Cajun Zydeco & Folk never explain what ‘Nonc’ means beyond, “Let me listen to it all again.” In true two-step form, it’s difficult to sit still through just one song on this album and perhaps more difficult to resist pulling the Horner off the shelf to play along. While I could presume […]
Cover photo by Baron Wolman for Secret Seven Records. Tiny Tim was, perhaps at the same time, both a mad-man and a genius. …depending on your tastes. Lucky for us, TT recordings once thought lost forever have been tracked down and presented in all of their dusty glory. . San Francisco’s Secret Seven Records has compiled a […]