The short story of my Austin Champ, licensed in the UK as MYA 713E, and ruminations upon both the joy and the despair of owning it. When,...

Letters, I used to get tons of them. Nowadays it’s emails, texts, messages and a zillion electronic missives. Emails I dig, they being...

A MODERN 78RPM READER THE LUST FOR SHELLAC: Confessions of an addict, Part 2. My good friend Josh Rosenthal who heads Tompkins Square...

A MODERN 78 RPM READER My good friend Josh Rosenthal who heads Tompkins Square Records out of San Francisco, recently published a...

Rhode Island guitarist and singer Duke Robillard, a musician steeped in the blues, has teamed up with Rhode Island’s Soulshot, a band steeped in Jamaican music, to make one of the year’s most interesting, listenable and danceable records, ‘Two Guitars - One Sound’, a mainly instrumental album featuring Andy Bassford and Mark Berney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuIscCrlrCo Rusty Zinn is one of those musicians, whether singing or playing the guitar, who has perfect...

A living archive of post-war music of America, from blues to San Francisco psychedelia, and a whole bunch of entertaining tales along the...

nts. A very nice 3-speed Dual 1218 turntable. All three speeds work beautifully. The unit has a Stanton 500 Mark II cartridge fitted with...

AS WITNESSED BY BRITT HALLQUIST. Gothenburg, Sweden,  Monday, May 15, 2023 A few days after arriving in Sweden I had an appointment at...

Photo: Britt Hallquist Sometimes you hear a sound that changes things for you forever. You had no idea it was coming, and when you heard...

After the show at The Bottom Line, NYC, April 5, 1981 L-R Jimmy Wimpfheimer, Doug James, Al Copley, Ronnie Earl, Danny Motta, John Rossi,...

The first volume of ‘The Island Book of Records - 1959-1968’ filled 390 pages and covered the first ten years of Island Records. Volume 2...

I find it hard to believe that it was 50 years ago that John Broven, the indefatigable English blues scholar, first published his...

The Salesman's Friend ... Here is an odd item - the Picturephone, the film projecting record playing way of selling! Reading the sheet of...

The Postman'sTale It’s funny how some events stick in our memory and others disappear into the fog of the past. Certain occasions in life...

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM American Rhythm & Blues In England 1962 – 1966 The Unseen Photographs of Brian Smith ISBN: 978-0-9561439-4-5 . Arts,...

The Plowman's Tale Higher Court Farm was a 500-acre hill farm nuzzled up against the Brendon Hills, and in the early 70s home to over a...

My friend Tom and I returned to Winchester in 1963 with a taste for cider, an appreciation of pubs and a hankering to visit more. Due to...

I’ve spent a lot of time in bars and pubs. Growing up in the UK and reaching the age of 18, and legally able to drink alcohol, was a rite...

Ron Levy at the window - Porky in the passenger seat. Roomful had owned an interesting assortment of vehicles before I met them,...