A Selection of Links from the Good Reverend for your dining and dancing enjoyment.
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Folks the Rev knows who make music one way or another.
(some of them will even admit to knowing him.)
Mark Higashino - Mark's the guy who takes pictures of people you only have in your record collection.
Richard Bacchus - Ricky's a nice guy, but a bad man. No, wait. It's the other way around.
Mad Juana - Karmen, Sami, Amalia, Danny, Jimmy, Tony, Donner and Blitzen are up to something the Rev can't quite figure out, but he likes it (and ain't that always the best way?)
Slip of a Girl - The Rev. might be A punk, but CW is THE punk. Weighing less than most of the Rev's footware, she's playin' like she's six foot eight.
Bantam - Gina, Doug and Pete have just released their second disc, Suicide Tourist. And if you don't think that they RAWK, then you best send your thinker back to the factory.
J. Scott Wynn Photography - If there's a rock show in town and the Rev.'s at large, he can usually be found stageside in the company of Mr. Wynn.
Jack Grace - the Rev's former roommate and frequent codefendant.
The Bootleg Remedy - Banjo player David Gould fronts and leads this crazy good crew playing folk-jazz-country-swing-&c. featuring various lineups of tuba, clarinet, lap steel, fiddle, washboard and musical saw, just for a start. If they can't get your toe tappin', then you should probably be taken out and horse-whipped. ( The Reverend performs horse whippings for a nominal fee and by appointment only.)
Mary Olive Smith and the Smokies - Come for Miss Mary Olive's singin' and stay for the band's playin', or come for the band and stay for the singin'. Either way the only way you'll be leavin' your seat is for a turn around the dance floor or to freshen your cocktail.
Jenny Scheinman - the Rev's fiddle teacher and an unrepentant Django addict.
Hugh Pool - Floats like a butterfly stings like a scorpion all hopped up on cough syrup.
Guitar Geek - If you want to sound like Robert Fripp you can go by this site and figure out just how many ducats you'll have to drop at Sam Ash. If you want to sound like Clarence White or Blind Blake, you probably oughtta buy a nice pillow for your chair and get to practicing. (thanks to axel)
International Guitar Seminars - one of the Rev's favourite places to polish up his chops and meet new folk who don't think he's crazy when he starts rambling on about Skip James and Mance Lipscomb.
National Resophonic Guitars - supposedly the steel body guitars can stop a bullet from a .32. Unfortunately, they will not stop an axe handle.
Martin Guitars - The Rev. plays but does not endorse C.F. Martin's D-28. Endorsement will follow as soon as they send him something for free.
Stewart Macdonald Guitar Supply - Plenty of parts and lots of good tech articles.
Motorhead - yes, yes, yes.
Merle Haggard - If you don't know why this link is here, you're just not paying any attention at all.
Jerry Lee Lewis - If you're the Killer, you can marry whoever the hell you want as far as we're concerned.
The Hot Club of Cowtown - Hot is right! Proper western swing from folks who aren't dead! (or even dying.)
OTIS! Otis Redding.Com - Those who don't know their music history are doomed to listen to The Black Crowes version of "Hard to Handle", and thereby, become a whole new kind of "Mr. Pitiful".
Doc Watson-American Folk Music Legend - res ipsa loquitur (thanks to Col. Tommy and Jack)
The Mudcat Cafe - a good place to find lyrics to all those old songs.
Jimmy Martin's Official Website - The King of Bluegrass. In the early '50's Bill Monroe made Jimmy a Bluegrass Boy. Between Jimmy's lead singing and guitar and Mon's tenor and blazing mando, you'll be lucky if they don't rip a hole in your sock. (thanks to Col. Tommy)
Fat Possum Records - Blues delivered like a roundhouse right you see comin' but can't avoid. All fussin', fightin', killin', drinkin' and "plain old trouble of being alive" music.
Townes Van Zandt Central - Every time the Rev. thinks he's written a good song we make him listen to Townes and he slinks back to his shed out back.
The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - The Blues had a baby and locked it in the root cellar with an Andre Breton Comic Book and a Spike Jones record.
The Gram Parsons Homepage - One proper listen to "Brass Buttons" and you'll forget all the hyperbole and Rolling Stones stories. (thanks to axel )
The Supersuckers - Rock, Roll. Neat. With a double whiskey back.
L7 - I wanna girl just like the girl that threw up on dear old Dad.
Other Dumb Stuff
The Great Thompson Hunt - Perhaps the greatest single musical influence on the Rev. (and you thought all Kentucky had to offer was Bourbon and Bill Monroe). R.I.P.
Needle Doctor - We know, you're waiting 'till you can download music off the internet into a pill so you can ride the subway and twist along to hundreds of tiny time capsules playing your favourite numbers. Still, we do like that brief moment when you drop the needle on a record between the time it finds the groove and the music starts where almost anything is possible. That and the smell of a new record when you crack the shrink wrap.
Straightbourbon.com - The perfect elixir for enhancing one's sex appeal, improving one's diction and coordination and making one almost completely bulletproof. ( Not just for breakfast anymore )
Danny Clinch Photographs - One of the Rev's favorite drinkin' buddies and a darn good harp blower to boot. Once played "Little Red Rooster" together for 40 minutes. Nobody seemed to mind. (The Rev. did get awful thirsty though.)
Recording Technology History - Back when you just couldn't wait for that new Caruso cylinder to come out.
Pynchon Portal - If they only let you take one book to that desert island, it might as well be a huge one you'll have to reread a bunch of times.
