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
SPECIAL GUEST: SHELBY EICHER 1. “Got A Letter from My Kid Today,” Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys2. “Cow Cow Boogie,” Great Recession Orchestra3. “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer,” Boys in the Bunkhouse(for the GLASS LIFTERS)4. “Johnson Rag,” John T. Wills and the Sons… Read More »May 5th, 2012
Thanks to the crackerjack efforts of Jigglin’ Joey Hambrick, our producer and engineer, my good pal Michael H. Price and I are pleased to be able to announce the launch of the Forgotten Horrorspodcast. To get it, I’m told by webmaster Jonathan, all you have to do is click on this link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/forgotten-horrors-podcast/id446297655 That simple… Read More »“FORGOTTEN HORRORS” PODCAST NOW AVAILABLE! FOR FREE!
DEDICATED TO MAX BARRETT 1. “San Antonio Rose,” Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys(for BILLY BYRD)2. “Lone Star Swing,” Buck Pizzarelli and the West Texas Tumbleweeds3. “Blues for You, My Love,” Billy Jack Wills’ Western Swing Band4. “Beer Bottle Mama,” Andy Reynolds and the 101… Read More »April 28th, 2012
While work on my new-look website continues – thanks to Jungle Jonathan Wooley, the hardest-working webmaster in the business – I have to take just a few paragraphs here to let you know that March 2011 has just become the biggest month ever for me in my writing career (such as it is). —… Read More »BREAKING BOOK NEWS . . .
I’m guessing that Thomas Hardy, the 19th Century British literary figure, never met Thomas Duncan, the famed vocalist with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, despite the fact that they both had something to say about how, you know, things become different as time wears on. I never met either of those Thomases, but I… Read More »First Quarter ’09 Update