Today – The Fugs. Coming out of the same era as Tim Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and a shitload of Acid, The Fugs are a long running favourite of mine. Tuli Kupferberg, lyricist and poet, had a knack for the sublime, the surreal and the nonsense, which is pretty much […]
If you’re on a Country kick then it’s bound to happen sooner or later. You can amble far and wide, from Bill Monroe to the Old Crow Medicine Show but like an addict reaching for that bottle there’s an inevitability about these things. Eventually you will end up with Hank […]
4 days? Has a slightly terrifying ring to it eh? More final checks today, weeding out minor mistakes, smiling at my favourite bits of the book – and then being slightly surprised that I still have favourite bits after reading it 50 or so times. Not a bad position to […]
Now granted I’m more of a rum drinker but on those rare occasions where I feel the need to glare through the bottom of a glass/bottle of whiskey this is the music I do it to. I was introduced to Murder by Death by a good friend of mine whose […]
A twofer in the countdown today because I started listening to the New Lost City Ramblers and in their ocean deep catalogue of nearly lost American folk it’s hard to pick a favourite. Plus this afternoon I received the proof copy of Crashed America after obsessively tracking it through Cincinnati, […]
And this site is still defunct, but I’m not. In case anyone stops by and missed the message last time I’m somewhat out of the music reviewing game but (pretty much) all my stuff is archived at www.laikareb.com plus I’m doing my own writer thing over at DylanOrchard.com where I’ve got a […]
A lot of Americans seem to intensely dislike Brad Paisley and I have no idea why. Granted all I know about him is that he’s apparently bought himself a Wrestling federation and that he made this song which appears frequently in the TV show Justified. For all I know he might have […]
My musical count down to the release of Crashed America continues today with the Old Crow Medicine Show. I lucked out when I had the chance to hear these guys at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee and they were spectacular. In the midst of some venerable Old Country […]
Because everyone likes a good old fashioned countdown and because I’m finally reaching the point where there’s no more fiddling to do with things I’ll be throwing out a new post every day until May 1st and Crashed America’s launch. As things stand everything is on course for both the ebook […]
THE END IS NIGH! The wolf doth lie with the lamb, the dog doth play footsie with the cat and I have put in a serious 8 hours work without resorting to Twitter, Facebook or TV for distraction. Surely we stand on the brink of the end times? But when […]