Geof Hewitt's Guide to Poetry Slam

Turns Out He Wasn't Murdered After All

REACTION

“Dude, this was like two years ago”

SEE: Hot Air

Great Song, Great Singer, Great Guitarist

Willie Watson Sings 'Midnight Special'

At Larimer Lounge in Denver; 2/15/2014.

AudioFemme interview.

Sarah Talks Hillary

Calling her out?

See video.

Folk Alliance International Song of the Day: Willie Watson's 'Keep It Clean'

 The Pitch by Natalie Gallagher on Tue, Feb 11, 2014

Thank You for Your Service Marcus Luttrell . .

. . and every other U.S. fighting man on that Afghanistan hill, bravely engaging in what some might call a "hopeless" or "senseless" fight.

Old Crow Medicine Show Performs "Wagon Wheel" at 2013 Americana Music Festival

Willie Watson Pulls "The Weight" With Dave Rawlings Machine

Willie Watson "Going to California" with Dave Rawlings Machine

Danny Schmidt Performs "Ragtime Ragtime Blues" at Empty Sea Studios (April 4, 2013)

Obama Debates Himself

Old Crow Medicine Show Asked to Join Grand Ole Opry

Shakespeare as Jewish Literature

Who wrote the Shakespeare Apocrypha?

Russians find answer to the Shakespeare question

Mark Twain's 'Is Shakespeare Dead?' with Keir Cutler

Mystery About Paul McCartney's Death or Putative Death

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now If you think John Lennon was the smart, arty Beatle while Paul was an empty head twittering prettily, this book will hip you to the facts. While John sat in the suburbs getting stoned to numb the pain of his imminent divorce, bachelor Paul was feeding his head by immersion in the London avant-garde. He pioneered the Beatles' experimental stuff, though his witty song-by-song account proves that it really was a 50-50 partnership--and some of the best innovations, like the snarling 1964 feedback intro to "I Feel Fine," happened by pure accident. Paul's insight into John's genius, which sprang from howling paranoia and a stark childhood, is still deeper than his insight into himself, but the book's true glory is its inside info on all those songs--the six tunes about John's marriage on A Hard Day's Night; Paul's heist of the "I Saw Her Standing There" bass line from Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You" (found on Berry's The Chess Box); the true meanings of "Norwegian Wood" (pine paneling, which the song's narrator burns to avenge the girl's refusal to have sex with him), "Got to Get You into My Life" ("you" is marijuana), and "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" ("life goes on" in Yoruba). This book is even better than A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song and Revolution in the Head. Here is the last word on the Beatles, inevitably slanted toward McCartney but generally more convincing than Lennon's own recollections. -- Tim Appelo

What are the major "Paul is dead" clues on Beatle album covers? by Robert Fontenot

'Paul Is Dead': Audio Clues

'Paul Is Dead': Visual Clues