Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Recently I managed to find a 2021 reissue of the marvellous 1990 World Party album Goodbye Jumbo. I wore out my CD copy from high school and haven't had...
Thunder Pie | The Dash-Fire Days of Private Deviney (Part I)
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” — Helen Keller
In the woods...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
During the early days of the pandemic I decided it was finally a good time to catalog my record collection on Discogs.
A few hours into the process, which took...
Back Stories | My 2012 Interview With Loretta Lynn
Sad news out of Nashville today: Country legend Loretta Lynn has died at age 90. In a statement, her family said she died at home in Tennessee. “Our precious...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
For the past year or so I've been telling my girlfriend I'm "refining" my record collection — weeding out stuff I don't want anymore and replacing it with new...
Thunder Pie | Foggy Mountain Breakdown
The afternoon sky is forever blue, me and Charlie on the ground. To the Crows in the woods across the creek, we are small. We are commoners of no...
20 Questions (& More) With Sir Will
Sir Will is ready to pump you up. The Compton-bred, Phoenix-based rapper's latest single Weight Up is a hip-hop anthem dedicated to investing in yourself, putting in the work...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I have a Velvet Underground live album recorded at Max's Kansas City in 1970. The album came out in 1972, the year the band broke up — just five...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I recently picked up a limited copy of Elton John's debut-album-that-wasn't. Regimental Sgt. Zippo was recorded in 1967 and 1968 and was intended to be Elton's first studio release....
Thunder Pie | Druggie at the Edge of the Woods
In the old days, I would waffle a tight blue racquetball off the high slate shingles of the Methodist Church and just stand there at the hunk of foundation...
Back Stories | My 2010 Interview With Hendrix Bassist Billy Cox
Since it's the anniversay of Jimi Hendrix’s death this week, I figured I'd dig a littler further into my files and resurrect this 2010 interview I did with Band...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I did a quick tally to see how many of my own Area Resident songs have a person's name in the title. The answer is three: Louise, You Can't...
Thunder Pie | Everything Gonna Be Alright
Muddy Waters: Whooooooooa, yeah. (Pause). Whoa, yeah.
Johnny Winter: Whooo!
Muddy Waters: Everything. (Pause). Everything. (Pause). Everything gonna be alright this morning.
Johnny Winter: Yes and No! (?)
Muddy Waters: Ohhh yeah.
Johnny Winter:...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
These days there are so many ways to find that awesome song you just heard in a store, movie, TV show or commercial.
My partner Chelle routinely turns to Shazam...
Thunder Pie: Two Wood Boxes Lyin’ Side By Side
“You are wonderful.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, at age 71, standing in his garden one summer afternoon, turned to his wife and said, simply, “You are wonderful.”
Then he clutched his...
