It's one of those non-reversible rules of life that says, not everyone who wears a turban is a great rhythm & blues singer, but every rhythm & blues singer who wears a turban is great. Eddie Kirkland, sometimes [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #10
Posted by rockindomp3
Here's a happy little sepia toned honey. By the looks of her boots (and the way she holds her cigarette) she may be the mother of the girls in GFP #5. I don't know what kind of uniform that is she's wearing [...]
Jack Nitzsche
Posted by rockindomp3
You'd be hard pressed to find a more varied and interesting career in music than the one lived by Jack Nitzsche (1937-2000), or one that left more great music. People throw the word genius around as though it means something, [...]
Slim Harpo
Posted by rockindomp3
"Why would anyone want to hear us do King Bee when they can hear Slim Harpo's version"-- Mick Jagger."Like a lot of Americans of my generation, I discovered the blues via the Rolling Stones.My grandparents bought me the [...]
Sabel Starr 1958-2009
Posted by rockindomp3
Sabel (sometimes spelled Sable) Starr nee' Shields died recently of cancer, she had been suffering from several brain tumors over the last year. She was 51 years old.Sabel, from Palo Verde in the San Fernando Valley [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #9
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Another week, another 'what the fuck?' found photo courtesy of the Fang. This one is from February of 1970. What are we looking at? A cheap hotel room, a young, comatose girl in a mini-dress passed out on a double bed, [...]
What's The Word- Thunderbird!
Posted by rockindomp3
Me and Quine were standin' out in front of CBGB's one night, around 1980, smoking cigarettes, catching a breeze, shootin' the shit when an old black wino came stumbling out of the Palace Hotel next door. He was dressed [...]
The Phil Spector Trial- A few thoughts....
Posted by rockindomp3
A few thoughts on Phil Spector, currently incarcerated awaiting sentencing for second degree murder charges:* You Lost That Lovin' Feelin' is one of the worst rock'n'roll records ever made.* Spector's best record is this [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #8
Posted by rockindomp3
Gee, but this is a fucked up photo, I'm not even sure what to say. The thing on the left, near the rear seems to have wandered in from a Diane Arbus shoot somewhere in the neighborhood, the lady with the balloons, lord [...]
Guitar Slim
Posted by rockindomp3
"... suddenly a wave of humanity come washing over the street-- kids, men, women, and couriers. "Here comes Slim! Slim's on the way!" A fleet of three red Cadillacs pulls up, and here's the man himself, emerging in a bower [...]
William Lindsay Gresham
Posted by rockindomp3
William L. Gresham's Nightmare Alley (1947) is that rarest of all beasts, a great book that became a great movie. A hard boiled noir set in a traveling carnival, it's main character Stan Carlisle, a hustler turned spiritualist, [...]
