This story first appeared in the online edition of the Madison weekly Isthmus. By Marc Eisen Well, that was embarrassing! I nodded off listening to overly ambient music at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, the great new creative space at […]
This story first appeared in the online edition of the Madison weekly Isthmus. By Marc Eisen Well, that was embarrassing! I nodded off listening to overly ambient music at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, the great new creative space at […]
Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that programming and managing an internet radio station is a labor of love. It also might just be the future of radio. Danny Birch of Radio Vagabond certainly has a passion for music, which […]
Ray Wylie Hubbard will never be confused with being conventional. Even his entrance into the basement of Hill Country Barbeque in Washington, D.C. had a flair for the dramatic. As the stainless steel doors of an elevator door opened, Hubbard […]
When Ray Wylie Hubbard took the outdoor main stage in the wake of a New Mexico cloudburst late on the third day of the Second Annual Music on the Mesa (MOM) Festival at Taos Mesa Brewing, the sound got hot, loud, […]
In my continuing effort to highlight DJs from all over the world, I present Rolf Hierath from Germany. He is a big Johnny Cash fan and does no less then three weekly radio shows. Bill Frater: Where and when did you […]
Fred Boenig has been in the “business” for many years and I admire his passion, honesty, and courage. That said, I feel that he’s a little harsh on the Americana Music Association and radio promoters. It should also be noted that Fred […]
Podcasting has been getting a lot of interest lately, but this is the first Radio Friendly interview highlighting a podcaster. I think that Calvin Powers of the Americana Music Show does one of the best podcasts out there. Bill Frater: Where […]
Last year at the Americana Music Conference in Nashville, I started talking to a guy about the nice Western shirt he was wearing and about how much I love Western shirts too. He told me his story about moving to the States […]
When you open Ray Wylie Hubbard’s memoir, a life…well, lived. (Bordello Records) and see the epigraphs, you already know you can’t put down the book. Both quotes illustrate that soul-shaking, sometimes godawful, fearful, invigorating struggle between the spiritual and the […]
I’m not the biggest fan of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s music. I mean, I’m a fan, just not the biggest. Therefore, when I tell you that his economical, cleverly structured memoir, A Life…Well, Lived (Bordello Records, 174 pages, with Thom Jurek […]
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