Leroy Pullins is all kinds of talent. It says so right there on the back cover.
From The Stacks: Leroy Pullins, ‘Funny Bones & Hearts’
Deep Cuts: Songs For Heavy Machinery
Some kids are obsessed with heavy machinery: bulldozers, tractors, cranes, dump trucks–they just can’t get enough of them.
The Bulldozer
It wasn’t a house yet, just a bare skeleton waiting for someone to make it into one.
From the Stacks: The Vibrators, ‘Pure Mania’ (White Label Promo)
June 1977: American DJs are spinning Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” KC & the Sunshine Band’s “I’m Your Boogie Man,” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Leo Sayer, Glen Campbell, and David “Hutch from Starsky […]
Deep Cuts: Prison Songs
Can you imagine going to prison for something you didn’t do?
ALT-K, pt. 2
Clemmons brings me a computer. While I recuperate over the next few days I read about Judge William Helton, about me.
From The Stacks: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, ‘Modern Lovers 88’
You can tell a bit about a person’s relationship to pop culture by their Jonathan Richman frame of reference.
Deep Cuts: The 1980s–Rock Sax’s Last Great Era
I was thinking the other day about the death of the saxophone. When the rock era dawned, having a sax player on the front line was as commonplace as featuring a hotshot […]
ALT-K
A Short Story In Two Parts
From The Stacks: ‘The Dells vs. The Dramatics’
Can you take a wild guess what this record is doing in my stacks?
