While the Real Mr. Heartache often doesn’t like movies, he does like Westerns, and he does like country songs winning Oscars. Today marks the first time that happened back in 1953 when…
Today, I’m not sure he’s name has much recognition. He’s barely noticed in the volumes of country music history proper and isn’t obscure enough for the “legends you’ve never heard of”…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Stories of first love aren’t usually all that compelling, mine…
Mickey Gilley comes from a distinct line of southern stylists. His Louisiana cousins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Lee Swaggart are stylists of the highest order. They know how to work a room….
STG and American Standard Time present Love Me Some Townes Van Zandt on Monday, March 7, 2011 at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern.
Love Me Some Townes Van Zandt brings together Seattle…
March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975
Rich Kienzle tells the story that during Bob Wills first recording session in 1935 producer Art Satherly stopped everything and chastised Wills for…
Sgt. Presley awaits discharge, Friedberg, Germany, February, 1960
“People were expecting me to mess up, to goof up in one way or another. They thought I couldn’t take it and so…
Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn, 1980
“They left a lot of my childhood out of the film. They didn’t want to make it too depressing.”
~ Loretta Lynn
Ms. Loretta
There is a man in Seattle named Bob LeClair who has a been collecting country records since the 1950s. Do I need to tell you he has a lot of them? He’s also a longtime listener, and…
