ABOUT RAR: For those of
you new to this site, "RAR" is Rick Alan Rice, the publisher
of the RARWRITER Publishing Group websites.
Use this link to visit the
RAR music page, which features original music
compositions and other.
ATWOOD - "A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliverance"-AVAILABLE
NOW FOR KINDLE (INCLUDING KINDLE COMPUTER APPS) FROM
AMAZON.COM.Use
this link.
CCJ Publisher Rick Alan Rice dissects
the building of America in a trilogy of novels
collectively calledATWOOD. Book One explores
the development of the American West through the
lens of public policy, land planning, municipal
development, and governance as it played out in one
of the new counties of Kansas in the latter half of
the 19th Century. The novel focuses on the religious
and cultural traditions that imbued the American
Midwest with a special character that continues to
have a profound effect on American politics to this
day. Book One creates an understanding about
America's cultural foundations that is further
explored in books two and three that further trace
the historical-cultural-spiritual development of one
isolated county on the Great Plains that stands as
an icon in the development of a certain brand of
American character. That's the serious stuff viewed
from high altitude. The story itself gets down and
dirty with the supernatural, which inATWOOD
- A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliveranceis the
outfall of misfires in human interactions, from the
monumental to the sublime.The
book features the epic poem"The
Toiler"as
well as artwork by New Mexico artist Richard
Padilla.
Elmore Leonard
Meets Larry McMurtry
Western Crime
Novel
I am offering another
novel through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
Cooksin is the story of a criminal syndicate that sets its
sights on a ranching/farming community in Weld County, Colorado,
1950. The perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm
equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal property of
individuals whose assets have been inventoried in advance and
distributed through a vast system of illegal commerce.
It is a ripping good yarn, filled
with suspense and intrigue. This was designed intentionally to
pay homage to the type of creative works being produced in 1950,
when the story is set. Richard Padilla
has done his usually brilliant work in capturing the look and feel of
a certain type of crime fiction being produced in that era. The
whole thing has the feel of those black & white films you see on
Turner Movie Classics, and the writing will remind you a little
of Elmore Leonard, whose earliest works were westerns.
Use this link.
EXPLORE THE KINDLE
BOOK LIBRARY
If you have not explored the books
available from Amazon.com's Kindle Publishing
division you would do yourself a favor to do so. You
will find classic literature there, as well as tons
of privately published books of every kind. A lot of
it is awful, like a lot of traditionally published
books are awful, but some are truly classics. You
can get the entire collection of Shakespeare's works
for two bucks.
Amazon is the largest,
but far from the only digital publisher. You can
find similar treasure troves atNOOK
Press(the
Barnes & Noble site),Lulu,
and others.
This BBC
documentary on the singer-songwriter era, as it existed in
Los Angeles from the mid-60s through the mid-70s, isn't
really very good, but it does get one thing right: it all
culminated in the Eagles, who represented the nadir of a
brief, moderately golden age in American music. They gave
the world the "platinum" album, marking 2 million-plus in
sales, and turned bland pandering to non-discriminating
consumer tastes into the music industry as it exists today.
Summer Twins
Summer Twins are
sisters Chelsea and Justine Brown.
They write dreampop and rock ‘n roll songs with a touch of
California sun.
Born and raised in Riverside, Ca, the two
decided they wanted to start a band from a young age.
Inspired by their dad's old rock 'n roll records, Chelsea
picked up the guitar, Justine taught herself to play drums,
and they played in an all-girl band throughout their teens.
They formed Summer Twins in 2008, with a
focus on singing pop harmonies atop garage rock inspired by
the '50s and '60s. Now in their early twenties, Summer Twins
play live with an additional guitarist and bassist.
Their debut self-titled album was
released on Burger Records in January (2012).
There is a big dollop of
aggression and menace in the minimalist sound the
Civil Wars, the
L.A./Nashville duo featured in the video below, "Barton
Hollow". Joy Williams
and John Paul White
garnered big-time attention with their tune "Poison & Wine",
now considered their signature, after the recording was used
on the popular television show "Gray's Anatomy". It serves
as a template for the type of songs that song peddlers
are selling these days in the fertile Film & TV market.
Williams and White were showcased at SXSW in 2011.
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L.A. Folkies
The Driftwood Singers
Hear this audio preview of
the Folky future:
The
Driftwood Singers unassumingly take
the stage and sing songs that could have been written ages ago
but were more likely written in the last few weeks. Just barely
in their 20s The Driftwood Singers are prolific writers immersed
in the folk tradition building on songs and stories that at
their heart are observations of the human condition in all it’s
gruesome variations and beautiful splendor.
Constantly on the road since beginning the
band nearly two years ago at the age of 19, playing all over the
country and Canada, The Driftwood Singers are quite a surprising
contrast to what one might expect from two kids born and raised
in the heart of Los Angeles. They prove that one can love the
Carter Family and traditional music and still be firmly in the
present with songs as vibrant and alive as any we’ve heard and
an attitude that embraces the anti-elitist and DIY ethos of the
punks we love.
Their debut, 5-song EP, Look! beautifully
exemplifies their determination. After experimenting with some
big studios and becoming frustrated with the intervals of
multi-tracking and the stale output of Protools, they decided
one night to pare everything down to its stark essence and begin
recording it on a Sony Walkman which they did by laying it on
their living room table and pressing record. What’s captured is
the immediacy of their performances and what they call “the
transparency of sound.”
How can you go wrong with songs of death and
hope, murder and love, lechery and splendor, transcendence and
cruelty and all points in between? We’re looking forward to
being a part The Driftwood Singers story as it winds it’s way
through the hills, hollers, canyons and caves out of the shadows
of the blue ridge mountains of Pocahontas, West Virginia to wide
open starlit skies of Joshua Tree, California.
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Rip Cat Lands The Blasters, K.K. Martin
Rip Cat Records
announces the signing of two iconic Southern California-based music artists,
The
Blasters and K.K. Martin.
The Blasters formed
in Downey, California back in 1979 and, along with X, Black Flag, Red Hot Chili
Peppers and others, have been an integral part of the SoCal
underground/indie-rock scene since their formation. Led by brothers Phil and
Dave Alvin, the group originally signed to much-loved indie label Slash Records
in 1981 and were known as much for their grueling touring schedule as their
unique country-punk sound. Among the noted musicians that have performed as
members of the Blasters through the years: the dynamic saxophone duo of Steve
Berlin and Lee Allen; bassist John Bazz; the late Hollywood Fats (a/k/a Michael
Mann) and X's Billy Zoom, Greg "Smoky" Hormel, James Intveld, and current
guitarist, Keith Wyatt; and drummers Billy Bateman, David Carrol and current
member, Jerry Angel. The Blasters were featured in the popular 1984 film Streets
Of Fire and placed two songs in the sound track, "One Bad Stud" and "Blue
Shadows." The Blasters are currently in the studio recording a new album for Rip
Cat.
K.K. Martin was a
founding member, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter for 80's-era band A La
Carte. The group gained considerable renown as one of the most in-demand groups
on the then-vibrant Sunset Strip music scene. Exposed in the womb to the music
of Jimmie Rodgers. Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, he began touring with his
parents at age 10. K.K. was transplanted to California in 1969 and cut his teeth
on the local L.A. rock scene at age 16, landing a brief stint with the Albert
Collins backup band. Martin has performed with a Who's-Who in the music business
including Eric Burdon, Booker T, Rick Derringer, Johnny Winters, Blondie, and
currently, Lester Chambers of famed R&B/Soul group The Chambers Brothers. K.K.
was a recipient of "Outstanding Blues Artist" at the 9th Annual Los Angeles
Music Awards in 1999. In the last decade, Louisiana native Martin has
reconnected with his Blues roots. He toured with Lester Chambers of the 60's
Chambers Brothers fame, recording a project with Lester called "Blues for Sale."
Martin has continued to play extensively throughout L.A. and Orange County as a
solo act as well as with the band Roadside Revelers. His latest CD is "Naked
Blues Vol. II," which will be re-released by Rip Cat.
Orange County-based
Rip Cat Records is one of the quickest-growing independent labels in Southern
California, with a solid artist roster that includes guitarist Barry Levenson;
The 44's, vocalist Lisa Cee; Johnny Mastro and Mamma's Boys; Whiteboy James &
The Blues Express; John Marx; Little Barry G; The Mighty Mojo Prophets; and Gino
Mateo.
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ARTHUR CHANNEL
Los Angeles music veterans
Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Eleven, Pearl Jam), Greg
Richling (The Wallflowers) and
Alain Johannes (Eleven,
Queens Of The Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures) have
combined forces with vocalist
Jonathan Greene to create a new project called
Arthur
Channel. The first
single “Vapor” is available at iTunes and can be
streamed from the
band's Website. A full length release will follow in the
first quarter of 2012 with tour dates to follow. The band
made its debut performance last week at The Viper Room in
L.A.
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Oh
Amanda Jo!
Gypsy Eccentric Serves Up a Dose
of Different
Mary's
Big Feet is a collection of solo home recordings by
Amanda Jo Williams
captured over the last few years. Some recorded in a Topanga
Canyon shack, and on a couch in Echo Park, Los Angeles, some in
Woodstock, NY, and a few in a snowed-in Pennsylvania country
house—whenever she was alone. She does weird voices and squeals
like a bunny in heat. Here is the first iteration of concert
favorite "The Bear Eats Me," experienced in a wholly different
way on the album than it is live with her ever expanding band.
Mary's Big Feet is a minimalist experiment in folk rock with a
country accent. It's just Amanda and her imagination.
by RAR
I was reading where
Amanda Jo Williams was
saying she suspects that she will die poor. This would be a
bleating shame, one supposes in the long run, but if poverty is
what drives her weird take on music one may be forgiven for
hoping things continue on the cheap.
Williams
has been playing clubs the last couple years on the east and
west coasts, engaging audiences with her parlor guitar and an
ever-growing army of supporting musicians, all of which bring to
mind some countrified rock version of "the Diggers", accept
these hippies are merely feeding musical souls.
For four years, Williams allowed
herself and her family - she is a mother a few times over - to
be photographed documentary style by London-based artist
Muzi Quawson. Georgia-native
Williams has a complicated life story, which led her from a
surly home environment to try her luck, at 19, as a model in New
York City. That did not work out particularly well - "I couldn’t
loosen up my face, I couldn’t come out of myself” - but it
created a dynamic where she was meeting interesting
personalities and bouncing back and forth between Woodstock, New
York and her Georgia home, eventually with children in tow.
The "Pull Back the Shade" Quawson
documentary project - Amanda Jo Williams is quoted as saying
"I'd get a little uncomfortable when we would be in public
places and she was snapping away..." - premiered at London's
Tate Gallery. In that way, birth was given to a certain entity:
an Appalachian-inspired backwoods girl steeped in all of the
sophistication one could absorb in a decade-long dive into the
world's deepest and most sophisticated cultural waters.
Williams went through a phase when
she was writing Bob Dylan-inspired songs, and she put out an
album's worth of that material, but she hadn't found her voice
yet. Now 30, she has a new collection of recordings that clearly
reveal a voice and an approach so unique that there is no doubt
that it is Amanda Jo Williams to whom it belongs. Watch the live
performance video below to get a feel for who she is.
Williams, her husband and their
3-year old live in a commune in Topanga. She told L.A. Times
reporter Margaret Wappler - "I was biased going in there – I
thought everyone was going to be lazy and passive-aggressive,
and I was kind of right, but there are some nice people.”
Williams went to nursing school for a time, but dropped out to
pursue music and now works as a front-desk receptionist at the
Malibu Motel.
Hide your eyes kids, it's the evil
"It Girl" of the Mark Jacobs 2011 pack
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I See Hawks in L.A.
In a world that seems bursting with
Americana talent, I See Hawks in L.A. soars like a Peregrine
Falcon over the angel's folk-rock skyline
LOS ANGELES,
Calif. —I See Hawks in L.A. have
released five critically acclaimed albums since they began writing songs in
their Echo Park living rooms 11 years ago. The band’s sound layers electricity
and Southern California psychedelia over acoustic guitars and rich vocal
harmonies.
Meanwhile, fans have
always treasured the Hawks’ acoustic shows, where Rob Waller’s rich voice, the
band’s subtle guitar arrangements, and the dark, literate lyrics take the
spotlight. A three-year one-mic acoustic series hosted by the band at Cole’s bar
in downtown L.A., and memorable acoustic shows all over the U.S. with Ray Wylie
Hubbard, Chris Hillman, and Dave Alvin, have honed the Hawks’ sound.
So in 2012, the End
of the World according to the Mayan calendar, I See Hawks In L.A. will finally
release that acoustic album, New Kind of Lonely, recorded live in a circle at
Marc Doten’s Echo Park studio with lovely German microphones. Street date is set
for February 21 on Western Seeds Records.
It’s been a long and
colorful journey for L.A.’s best-known alt-country band. Countless
whiskey-fueled shows from Santa Monica to downtown to the high desert with Mike
Stinson, Randy Weeks, Tony Gilkyson and dozens of other artists spawned a
now-thriving roots country scene amidst the palm trees and yuccas. Four I See
Hawks In L.A. releases notched #1 on the Freeform American Roots (FAR) Chart,
and several have hit the Euro Americana Top 10. Dave Alvin has cited the Hawks
as “one of California’s unique treasures.”
Treks to Europe and
U.K. and repeated tours through most of the 50 states have created a solid
following scattered across the globe. “We thrive in the margins,” the Hawks
always say. New Kind of Lonely could be the recording to push them into
prominence.
On every track,
shimmering textures of Martins and Gibsons and upright bass, with touches of
dobro and some beautiful fiddle from Gabe Witcher, embellish haunted themes.
Death and loss, in very personal terms, weave into almost every song. L.A.
Americana’s favorite sister, fiddler/songwriter Amy Farris, is mourned
lyrically; the sorrow waiting at the end of every long and joyous marriage is
explored in the bittersweet “Your Love Is Going To Kill Me (Someday).”
In reaching back to
pre-electric traditions, the Hawks seem to have tapped into the mortality that
looms in the work of Hank Williams, The Stanley Brothers, and the Carter Family,
far from the feel-good suburbiana of today’s Nashville songwriting. Dark times
do need some kind of acknowledgement. I See Hawks In L.A. have taken this on.
But much of the
music is rocking and uplifting. “Big Old Hypodermic Needle,” a black humored two
beat about two best friends overdosing, is perfect for a barn dance. “Hunger
Mountain Breakdown,” in which the singer plans a dramatic ridgetop suicide, is
driven by Cliff Wagner’s kickass bluegrass banjo and Gabe Witcher’s virtuoso
fiddling. “The Spirit of Death” is hard charging Cajun rock. “I Fell In Love
With the Grateful Dead,” a compendium of the three bandmates’ Dead show
experiences over four decades, ventures into jam band territory, with lots of
notes expended on guitar and bass.
I See Hawks In L.A.
will launch New Kind of Lonely with, appropriately enough, an acoustic show at
McCabe’s (February 24), followed by an electric version of the new tunes at
Pappy & Harriet’s (March 10) in the high desert. The band will tour North
Carolina in May and will also perform at the Strawberry Festival in California's
Sierras. Over the summer they will hit the road to places new and familiar.
- Cary Baker
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Baby and Album
Hilary
Duff is Back
T
iming a rebirth of one's
career with giving actual birth to a child does not
at first seem like a realistic plan...thinking more about
it, it doesn't even seem like a realistic second, third or
fourth alternative plan, but that is what former Disney
tweener-starlett-turned-pop-idol Hilary Duff has planned for the next couple
months. She has been in the studio, and you can
use this link to watch promotional videos, should
you be inclined.
I suggest that cautiously, understanding that most readers
of this site are not big Hilary Duff supporters, with
reasons ranging from demographics to musical tastes. Yours
truly is a big Hilary Duff fan, based on the age of my
teenaged daughter and our shared experience of Hilary Duff
live, which turned out to be one of the nicest concert
surprises of my entire concert-going life. Full Disclosure:
I attend concerts at a frequency only slightly greater than
that of my encounters with Bigfoot, which doesn't really
qualify me as an expert on either phenomena. That said, the
Hilary Duff performance I saw in an outdoor setting was
fueled by a top-flight band, featuring powerhouse drummer
Shawnee-Baby and
metal-guitarist Jason Hook,
and an utterly charming high energy rock performance by the
high-gleen princess of pop, who at the time had the
top-selling album in the U.S..
Hilary Duff was golden in that
period, bringing the full wattage of her natural charisma to
a collection of really strong material featuring really fine
production. I once read an interview with the guitarist
Hook, who seemed a bit thrown by the Duff organization's
commitment to first-class accommodation on all levels. He
was marveling at hotel suites with heated marble floors. (It
is interesting that Hook's Wikipedia article makes no
mention of Hilary Duff, outside of the list of acts he has
worked with, though it has clearly been his largest exposure
- he toured with her internationally. Maybe the high-end
digs didn't set well?)
That Hilary Duff is a Republican
- one doesn't sense she has a strong political bent, just a
natural inclination to blend seamlessly into the upper "one
percent" - is off-putting to someone like myself, as perhaps
is her marriage to a pro hockey player, but then she is
still very young (24) and developing in her adult vision.
(Yeah, right, the nobles obliged do that, one might rightly
say.)
As one might expect to have
happened, Duff seemed to lose her way about the time she
started exploiting her young-adult feminine charms, with
videos from her Dignity album (which had the
irredeemable qualities of co-writer/co-producer Kara DioGuardi all over it) featuring lush
production values and top-end sound that came across as
utterly phony. The LP didn't do particularly well, though
the videos have racked up as many as 34 million views on
YouTube!
Certainly a big part of the attraction is
that the face of young-adult Hilary Duff is a pleasure to behold,
explosive with the expressiveness that made her such a
charmingly unaffected teen actress, but now supported by a
physiognomy rather like that of the young Faye Dunaway. This
led her to be cast in a remake of the Dunaway-Warren Beatty
classic Bonnie & Clyde, from which she was paid $100K
to walk away from. There was a dispute over production
schedules and Duff's pregnancy, but there were also reports
that the film's producer Tonya S. Holly wanted to dump her
because she just didn't have the acting chops. Duff landed
her Disney gig with virtually no acting experience and has
been developing the craft while developing her career, which
is bound to present pitfalls, and the Bonnie & Clyde thing,
which even featured a public spat with Faye Dunaway herself,
probably left scars. Now Hilary Duff is getting her voice
back into shape and concentrating on an upcoming album.
Her challenge will be to find
that voice that captures her innate charm, while avoiding
the clichés that dogged her last LP. At her best, young
Hilary Duff was a mainline high of blue skies and optimism.
It isn't that easy to be that person after life has dealt a
few blows and a few wrong choices have been made. I am not
even sure it is possible to be 24 years old and not
apparently jaded, given where young Duff has been. The video
below is what it looked like with Hilary Duff when last she
seemed in the wonder of it all - life and early success.
- RAR
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CANDYE
KANE’SSISTER VAGABOND ALBUM,
DUE AUGUST 16 ON DELTA GROOVE, RINGS TRIUMPHANT IN A CHALLENGING
YEAR
Winning first battle over cancer,
Kane celebrates 11th long-player, a set co-produced by guitarist
Laura Chavez. Its predecessor, Superhero, was nominated
for Blues Music Award.
LOS ANGELES, California — Candye Kane has been
called a survivor, a superhero and the toughest girl alive. (All
are also titles of her self-penned songs.) Her eleventh CD
release, Sister Vagabond, will hit the streets on August 16,
2011 on Delta Groove Records. Produced by Kane and her noted
guitarist Laura Chavez, Sister Vagabond is a worthy successor to
their 2010 collaboration, Superhero, which was nominated for
Best Contemporary Blues CD in the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music
Awards.
The jump-blues singer, songwriter
and mother of two from East Los Angeles is a five-time nominee
for Blues Music Awards, has nabbed ten San Diego Music Awards
and starred in a sold-out stage play about her life. She’s beat
pancreatic cancer in the last two years. She has performed
worldwide for presidents and movie stars.
But her path to success was not
always glamorous or easy. Raised in what she calls a
dysfunctional blue-collar family, Candye became a mother, a
pinup cover girl and a punk-rock, hillbilly blues-belter by the
time she was just 21 years old. Ten CDs, six record labels,
millions of international road miles and countless awards later,
Miss Kane has proven to be a true survivor as she scrambled her
way to the top of the roots-music heap, creating a world
renowned reputation that has spanned two decades.
A colorful mixture of the
traditional and the eclectic, Kane cut her musical teeth in the
early ’80s onstage with Hollywood musicians and friends Social
Distortion, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Los Lobos, The Blasters,
X, Fear and the Circle Jerks, to name just a few. While raising
two sons, this role model for the disenfranchised championed
large-sized women, fought for the equal rights of sex workers
and the GLBT community and inspired music lovers everywhere. Her
fans are a mixture of true outsiders: bikers, blues fans, punk
rockers, drag queens, fat girls, queers, burlesque dancers, porn
fans, sex workers, rockabilly and swing dancers, gray-haired
hippies, sex-positive feminists and everyday folk of all ages.
In 1986, then married to Thomas
Yearsley of the Paladins, she was touched by the music of Big
Maybelle, Big Mama Thornton, Ruth Brown and more. Her
self-released 1991 Burlesque Swing caught the ear of Texas
impresario Clifford Antone, who signed her to a deal with
Antone’s Records. Los Lobos’ Cesar Rosas and Paladin/Hacienda
Brother/Stone River Boy Dave Gonzalez co-produced the first
album of the deal, Home Cookin’. Picked up by Discovery (later
Sire) Records, the Dave Alvin/Derek O’Brien-produced Diva La
Grande was followed by Swango in the height of the swing craze.
Rounder/Bullseye Records signed
her in 1995, releasing The Toughest Girl Alive, produced by
Scott Billington. Four albums followed on the German RUF label,
including the Bob Margolin-produced Guitar’d and Feathered. She
then pacted with her current label, Delta Groove, releasing
Superhero in 2010 and now Sister Vagabond in 2011.
Her full-time, 250-days-a-year
touring schedule started in 1992. And today, Kane’s live shows
are the stuff of legend. She honors the bold blues women of the
past with both feet firmly planted in the present. She belts,
growls, shouts, croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering
and overcoming obstacles. She uses music as therapy and often
writes and chooses material with positive affirmations that
leave the audience feeling healed and exhilarated. In a show
that is part humor, part revival meeting and party sexuality
celebration, she'll deliver a barrelhouse-tongue-in-cheek blues
tune or a gospel ballad, encouraging audiences to leave behind
religious intolerance. She’ll slay the crowd with her balls out
rendition of “Whole Lotta Love” or glorify the virtues of zaftig
women with “200 Pounds of Fun.” She often says she is a ”fat
black drag queen trapped in a white woman's body” and she
dresses the part.
Kane has been included in
countless blues and jazz CD anthologies including Rolling Stone
Jazz and Blues Album Guide and Musichound: Blues, The Essential
Album Guide and Dan Aykroyd’s 30 Essential Women of the Blues.
She appeared on the influential call-to-arms of Southern
California roots music, A Town South of Bakersfield on Enigma
Records, alongside Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam.
In addition to her musical
achievements, Kane has become an activist and philanthropist in
recent years. In August 2009, she appeared in Dublin, Ireland
for the World Congress for Downs Syndrome with her United by
Music charity http://www.unitedbymusic.eu The project provides
performance opportunities, blues history lessons and songwriting
instruction to young people with disabilities, encouraging them
to write their own blues songs to help them overcome their daily
challenges.
A fighter par excellence, Candye
has an authenticity, determination and optimism that keep her
shows passionate, honest and irresistible.
“I take things one day at a time
and today I am feeling great and very optimistic about my new
CD,” Kane says. It’s been awesome to write and co-produce again
with my guitarist Laura Chavez. I am grateful for every chance I
get to make music live, or in the studio. Most people are given
only three months to live after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis
and three years later, I am still here. So any opportunity I
have to create music makes me humbled and grateful.
“People ask me why I want to work
so hard and so much, since I tour 250 days a year. Everyone says
I should stay home and relax after my health struggle. But music
is my life and neuroendocrine cancer is a mostly manageable
disease. I will continue to work as much as I can because I know
life is fragile anyway. I would be fine if I died onstage doing
what I love like Country Dick Montana or Johnny Guitar Watson.
I’m not planning on going anytime soon, but when I do exit this
plane, I hope it’s making someone else feel inspired by the
powerful words in my songs.”
L.A. Weekly
NOTE TO READERS:
The Los Angeles Links from 2006-2009 are
archived, so if you are not finding the profiles you have seen on this page
previously, you might either explore the following links or, probably better,
use this link to go to the Links at RARWRITER Artist
Index.