Saturday, April 02, 2005
The best CD review I've read so far today comes from the Free New Mexican, telling stories about beatnik friends, oral histories they're called, reminiscences of times gone by, and real gone cats and chicks:
"Tom Russell’s new CD, Hotwalker, subtitled Charles Bukowski & a Ballad for Gone America, is a sad celebration of a lost time, a bittersweet, nostalgic work about the literary, musical, and cultural milieu of Russell’s formative years in Los Angeles, a righteous invocation of 'the old America when music still resonated through nightclubs, people gambled and drank and screwed and smoked. People went down to the border and sipped highballs and cocktails and went to the bullfights. The old America where the big guilt and political correctness and the chain stores hadn’t sunk in so deep.' "
(more from Terrel's Tune-Up here)
(and the best book review of the day, Useful Noise aka Keith Harris concerns himself with Kembrew MacLeod's Freedom of Expression which you can read in the Village Voice) ¶ 4/02/2005 08:15:00 AM
"Tom Russell’s new CD, Hotwalker, subtitled Charles Bukowski & a Ballad for Gone America, is a sad celebration of a lost time, a bittersweet, nostalgic work about the literary, musical, and cultural milieu of Russell’s formative years in Los Angeles, a righteous invocation of 'the old America when music still resonated through nightclubs, people gambled and drank and screwed and smoked. People went down to the border and sipped highballs and cocktails and went to the bullfights. The old America where the big guilt and political correctness and the chain stores hadn’t sunk in so deep.' "
(more from Terrel's Tune-Up here)
(and the best book review of the day, Useful Noise aka Keith Harris concerns himself with Kembrew MacLeod's Freedom of Expression which you can read in the Village Voice) ¶ 4/02/2005 08:15:00 AM
