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 [...]

Check out how I opened a cabinet door I never ever open and inside was a big pile of records I’d forgot belonged to me or existed. Thanks to various helpful people I now have usable needles for my turntables so I dumped a few into this thing. Contents include Australians, ironhided old men, famous [...]

There are three Hanks everyone thinks of when they think of country music–and they’re all Williamses.
The fourth, of course, was Hank Thompson,