Here’s a couple interesting remembrance pieces you might have missed recently.
Firstly, singer-songwriter Dave Alvin remembers the night in 1983 that he and a group of musicians from X and The Blasters backed up the late Bo Diddley at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles.
“Whatever you do, do not play ‘the Beat!’ ” Alvin distinctly [...]

2008 Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins today cracked open an old courthouse safe stuffed with a bunch of stuff belonging to 1963 Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and all the best goodies had Jack Ruby’s name all over them—most notably, a goofy transcript where Ruby and Lee Oswald yeg it up about rubbing out the [...]