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
Oklahoma City’s gorgeous this time of year. Okay, maybe not exactly gorgeous, but certainly cooler than it was a couple of months ago. So let’s call it tolerable. On the morning of Oct. 3, I’ll be headed down the turnpike to OKC with my pal and partner in Reverse Karma Press, John McMahan, where we’ll… Read More »Fourth Quarter ’08 Update
Folks who like their adventure high and wild – especially when it comes from the pages of the pulp magazines of yesteryear – know the name Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, whose over-the-top tales from the ’30s and ’40s pulps found a whole new audience decades later as paperback novels (and, in fact, continue… Read More »Second Quarter ’08 Update
Both Dave Stevens and Mario DeMarco loved the romance and wonder of entertainment from days gone by – loved it so much that they filtered it through their own souls, reshaping it and recasting it, shining it up and sending it out. Dave, of course, was the artist and writer best known for creating the… Read More »First Quarter ’08 Third Update
My webmaster and cyberspace advisor, Jonathan Wooley, having educated me recently about the importance of website blogging, has now advised me that it’s a good idea not only to regularly add links to other websites, but also to write a bit about the linkees. With that in mind, here’s a little something about the folks… Read More »First Quarter ’08 Second Update
If you happen to be interested in Oklahoma-related movies and music, you might want to check out a couple of newly released articles penned by your faithful (sort of) correspondent. The current issue of Fangoria, No. 270, carries the story of my visit to the set of Soul’s Midnight, a vampire film starring Armand Assante… Read More »First Quarter ’08 Update