Bios and stories about the artists we feature
Elvin Bishop and Kenny Wayne Shepherd both play guitar, but they took wildly different paths to forge a career in music. Both were recently profiled in Blues Music Magazine (Issue 21, April 2019) and it struck me that becoming a professional musician doesn’t happen overnight, nor is there a simple A+ B = C […]
When we last heard from Jack Spann, he had just released his second album Beautiful Man from Mars (2017 – Big Boo Music – ASCAP), we noted his penchant for writing story songs propelled by piano hooks. Fans and new listeners alike will find his new CD, Propaganda Man another step forward for Spann […]
We always heard bass player Mike arrive at our Sledgehammer rehearsals before we saw him. Our basement on Summit Street was exposed on the east side of our one story home making that side of our house two stories. The driveway dipped down from the street to the garage on the lower level that […]
When WOAS-FM 88.5 celebrated being on the air for 30 years back in 2009, we asked current and former staffers to send us stories and recollections about their time volunteering at the station. We got more than we had anticipated, so we published a few highlights and posted the rest on a bulletin board for […]
We last checked in with Little Steven (Van Zandt) back in early 2018 (FTV: 2-7-18) when we reviewed his second album with his ‘other band’, The Disciples of Soul. We say ‘other band’ because Van Zandt’s name has been more closely associated with his previous work with both Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes […]
“Tom who? Tom Hambridge you say? Never heard of him.” That was the sum of my knowledge about the drummer/vocalist/songwriter/producer a few years ago. These days, I would update my summation to: “Yeah, we have HEARD music with his fingerprints all over it, we just didn’t know it was him.” Now thanks to an […]
My newest set of glasses are a tad wider than my last pair so I was a little shocked to look in the mirror one day and see two scars on the outside corner of my left eyelid. I also noticed a third right below my lower lip. I guess what startled me is […]
By the time you read this, Lee Kerslake may actually be ‘resting in peace’ – as in ‘dead’. If not and he is still hanging in there, be assured that he was at peace long before he was told that he wasn’t long for this world. I knew that since 2007 he had been […]
It is 2019. Jeff Bridges tours between acting gigs with his band The Abiders. The name, of course, was lifted from his character’s oft quoted line in his 1997 movie The Big Lebowski, “The Dude abides” (‘The Dude’ being his self-bestowed handle in the movie). From what I have seen and heard, Bridges’ work […]
Of course, as a non-commercial station, we don’t push products for sale . . . however, when the RWB were still based in Michigan, they made several stops in Ontonagon and we were fortunate to have them perform for the OASD student body at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts. With that said, we […]