It’s taken half a year, but there’s a new Hidden Sixties special coming your way from Public Radio Tulsa this July 4th. Featuring songs that you may not have heard since the 1960s, if you’ve heard them at all, the Hidden Sixties Summer Special follows — albeit very slowly — on the heels of the Hidden Sixties Holiday Special, which aired during… Read More »HIDDEN SIXTIES SUMMER SPECIAL
I hope to see a few like-minded fans of good old escapist literature in Chicago at the Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention, which runs from April 25th through the 27th. It’s a terrific convention full of, well, people who read, and tons of great reading material for sale, along with art (both for sale… Read More »WINDY CITY PULP AND PAPERBACK CONVENTION
Sunday, March 30, I’ll be joining my dj son Steven for the Vinyl Brunch, an event put on by the Tulsa Vinyl Society at the Chimera Cafe, 212 N. Main Street in Tulsa. As the guest dj that day, he’ll be spinning “electronic to Americana,” he says, during his time at the turntables. Steven… Read More »Vinyl Brunch
A confession: I’ve needed help for a long time. Anyone could see it — anyone, that is, who exposed him- or herself to my pitiful efforts at maintaining a website, blogging, tweeting, navigating Facebook (never mind actually responding to questions and comments), and generally becoming even a tiny part of the whole social media scene.… Read More »JOEY JUMPS IN
Now that the holidays are in the rear-view mirror, I want to publicly thank everyone who made the Hard-Boiled Christmas Stories signing at Dwelling Spaces in Tulsa such a great evening for John McMahan and me. Big thanks to my pal Mary Beth Babcock and her crackerjack Dwelling Spaces staff, and ditto to Jeff Martin of Book… Read More »
To those looking for a holiday gift that’s a little off the obvious trails, may I humbly suggest our first offering from Reverse Karma Press, Hard-Boiled Christmas Stories. Folks, this 10-story collection delivers the goods — gats, gals, and even a little gore, 1930s and ’40s style. My RKP partner, John McMahan, and I — with… Read More »HARD-BOILED CHRISTMAS STORIES!
Yes, it’s been a long time since I “blogged,” as the “kids” say. But those who follow my radio show, Swing on This, know that I’ve been keeping up with the weekly playlists, so, despite appearances, this site is not abandoned. What’s brought me back to write some new material? Well, evidence to the contrary,… Read More »Two New Forgotten Horrors Books!
The very first sale I made as a writer was a comic-book script bought by Warren Publications in 1970 for the sum of exactly twenty-five frogskins. It came out in Eerie No. 32, illustrated by the veteran illustrator Jack Sparling and edited by Archie Goodwin, who I was to find out was one of the… Read More »Hey Kids! Comics!
“Beaumont Rag,” Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (for BILLY BYRD and JIM VANCE) “Comes Love,” Cow Bop “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking,” Hank Thompson (for the GLASS LIFTERS) “When You’re Smiling,” Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers “Gone Away,” Bill Anderson w/Oak Ridge Boys “Song of… Read More »May 19th, 2012
1. “Faded Love,” Bob Wills w/Mel Tillis 2. “Tiger Rag,” Whit Smith’s Hot Jazz Caravan 3. “My Adobe Hacienda,” Louise Massey and Her Westerners (for SU DAVIS) 4. “Swingtown,” Roy Ferguson 5. “Close up the Honky Tonks,” Buck Owens (for the GLASS LIFTERS) 6. “Smoke!… Read More »May 12th, 2012