When John Mellencamp’s hit single Little Pink Houses shot up the record charts, I liked it immediately. Why? Like the lyrics suggest, I actually did grow up in a pink house. At the time it wasn’t my favorite color, especially when we did one of those elementary school art projects were we were asked to […]
Volunteering at the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival has become the highlight of my summer. I first got involved with PMMF #2 and now circle the PMMF weekend in my engagement calendar far enough in advance that the family plans on me disappearing for two days near the end of August. After a few years of […]
Ten years ago, my wife and son got me one of those birth year cards entitled, “1953 – Remember When . . . A Nostalgic Look Back in Time”. I rediscovered it in the summer of 2018 while rifling through miscellaneous files of cards and things that had been waiting for me to sort out […]
If you are of a certain age, you have seen it. The ubiquitous album cover for his groundbreaking double live album Frampton Comes Alive! The cover is festooned with an impossibly young looking Peter Frampton, signature black Gibson Les Paul in his hands, his curly halo of hair and gleaming smile beaming out over […]
Who is Burton Guibord and why haven’t we heard more about him? It turns out that he is a Native American musician with roots in northern Wisconsin. When our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Records in Milwaukee sent us a preview of Guibord’s record, Are We Free?, I was eager to learn more about […]