Gram Parsons – The Adios Lounge: Recent Episodes
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On Tuesday I was lucky enough to see the very first 50th anniversary tribute performance of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo at The Theater at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It was Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman from The Byrds and Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives as backing band. It’s a partnership that […]Related Posts* Clarence White + Chris Hillman = 1966 Gold June 24, 2010 * byrds sweetheart 50-1b July 27, 2018 * byrds sweetheart 50-3 July 28, 2018 * byrds sweetheart 50-9b July 29, 2018 * byrds sweetheart 50-5 July 29, 2018
On March 26, I, Lance Davis, joined Sarah Espinoza in matrimony. It was a lovely, understated ceremony at the Urban Light installation in front of LACMA (LA County Museum of Art). Urban Light was one of the first places Sarah and I went to on a date because it features 200 street lamps from […]Related Posts* Lance & Sarah - Burying Craig August 17, 2015 * Happy Birthday, Sweet Lu! February 24, 2014 * sarah tat_children of god February 24, 2014 * ... Melts Into the Sea, Eventually August 18, 2015 * Every Day of the Week, I Get Down May 17, 2015
I recently finished Keith Richards‘ autobiography, Life (2010), and I don’t know why, but I was surprised at the pathos, honesty, insight, and sense of history. The Rolling Stones have turned into a corporate-sponsored pirate ship, so I think I internalized my disappointment in what their legacy had become. I put off reading Life […]Related Posts* Video From The Vault: Sweet Virginia March 9, 2009 * keith richards bass September 8, 2018 * keith richards 1972 tour July 7, 2018 * elizabeth-taylor-keith-richards-1980 December 6, 2016 * rolling stones 1965 January 19, 2014
Did you know that Jay Farrar of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt fame published a book last year? Falling Cars And Junkyard Dogs was issued by indie Soft Skull Press and while it’s autobiographical, it’s not a straight linear narrative. In fact, there’s not much narrative at all. It’s autobio through a series of vignettes […]Related Posts* A Beer In Each Hand and A Smile In Between January 15, 2010 * More Tupelo: This Note's For You April 17, 2012 * Not Forever, Just For Now May 1, 2014 * uncle tupelo October 1, 2012 * uncle tupelo October 1, 2012
“Dry your eyes and stand up straight Bugler’s got a place at the Pearly Gates Say goodbye sugar Oh, say goodbye” And so we come to the final year of Clarence White’s life and the eleventh and final (for now) chapter of my Adios Loungeography. I’ve put off this part of his bio for as […]Related Posts* Remembering July 14-15, 1973 July 15, 2018 * The Day Doc Watson Met Clarence White May 30, 2012 * The Sound of Goodbye April 30, 2009 * Clarence White: White Lightnin' April 14, 2009 * Clarence-White B&W October 22, 2012
Like California, Los Angeles has been rebuked and scorned in book, film, song, musical, vaudeville, pretty much every medium dating back to protozoan wall art. It’s easy to hate LA. I don’t have much of a problem with the city, beyond traffic, but the entertainment-industrial complex is a whoremaker chewing up everything in its […]Related Posts* L.A.'s Beautiful When It Rains December 13, 2009 * The Adios Lounge "Wall" of Fame March 29, 2013 * los angeles pitfalls October 4, 2012 * bicycle thief_you come and go like a pop song_1999 October 24, 2015 * Just Like Doug Sahm's Blues May 21, 2009
“His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones/And I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay.” –Jeremiah, droppin’ lyrical science in King James 20:9 Today we connect the dots between Alex Chilton and a few of his southern contemporaries in the late ’60s and early […]Related Posts* Alex Chilton October 5, 2012 * Alex Chilton 1970 October 5, 2012 * paul westerberg alex chilton October 5, 2012 * December Boys Got It Bad March 21, 2010 * Chilton's Missing Years April 18, 2010
A few days ago, the Rolling Stones released a remastered version of Exile On Main Street. I’m supposed to be excited about this, what with my lifelong membership in the “Exile Might Be The Greatest Album Ever” fan club. Meh. Financially, it makes perfect sense. I’m actually surprised its taken this long for the […]Related Posts DexaVision: Caption & Down Low June 14, 2009 * Video From The Vault: Sweet Virginia March 9, 2009 * Adios Lounge Interviewed by Blues.Gr February 11, 2014 * PANDE-FU*IN'-MONIUM! June 6, 2010 * rolling stones 1965 January 19, 2014
Through a fortuitous set of circumstances, this morning I happened upon a 2007 BBC documentary called, Hotel California: From The Byrds To The Eagles. While the title was promising and the documentary well-made, it covered the SoCal folk scene I’ve never much cared for (Neil Young excepted), it seemed to talk around, rather than […]Related Posts* Kickstart Bob Forrest Documentary February 23, 2011 * Devo Kickstarter August 3, 2012 * SXSW Film: Bob And The Monster March 10, 2011 * The Byrds January 1, 2018 * Byrds - Farther Along October 5, 2012
In July 1968, The Byrds played South Africa without Gram Parsons, who decided that shooting smack with Keith Richards was better than playing segregated Johannesburg, so he essentially fired himself. While GP’s political motives were as much expedient as heartfelt, to his credit he flew the coop on a tour that was by all […]Related Posts* Clarence White + Chris Hillman = 1966 Gold June 24, 2010 * Willin': LA's Country-Rock Origins December 22, 2008 * Callin' Me Home: 50 Years of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo July 29, 2018 * Clarence White: From Bakersfield To Byrdland: 1967-68 September 5, 2008 * Clarence White: Strap Yourself to a Tree with Roots: 1970 July 17, 2009