Cap'n Ken's Homespun Wisdom

With the audio-processing part of my brain freshly stimulated by the introduction of an iPod, Mac Mini and 250GB hard drive, it”s time for a few ramblings on music. • I”m really tardy on this, but Loretta Lynn”s Van Lear Rose is a flat-out amazing album. Once again – ala Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin [...]

A note came in to The Wisdom Mailbag yesterday carrying the subject line “Tonya Watts here”. Loyal readers of The Wisdom may remember Tonya from a piece I wrote about country music in L.A. a few weeks back – Taking in Nashywood. I sort of wasn”t all that nice in writing about Tonya. I believe [...]

After reading the cover story in L.A. Weekly entitled Hollywood Country and realizing that a monthly jam session referenced in the piece was happening this week, I decided to drive down to Hollywood last night to see what all the fuss is about. “It Came From Nashville” is the brainchild of a singer-songwriter named Tonya [...]

The King would be 70 today. I”ve added a shot (1956) of Elvis into my image rotation (a horrible oversight to not launch with The King, I know, but creating those transparent images is a pain in the arse). I”ll be celebrating Elvis” birthday by just doing what The King would want – TCB.

[update - So just two were guessed, by some guy I don"t think I know. So to close out this silly thing, you"ll find the answers below. And shame on you all for not getting The Clash stuff ...] OK, so over at That Yellow Bastard, he”s pushing a new lyric game. Here”s the rules [...]

I was pleased as punch to come home last night to find the new Kings of Leon album “Aha Shake Heartbreak” in my mailbox. If you don”t know the Kings, they are a band of brothers (and a cousin) who grew up in and around Memphis and traveled the South with their dad (Leon), who [...]

So I was out at lunch today and decided to swing by Media Play. I”ve been on somewhat of a mini-quest to legitimize my music collection by buying CDs of artists whose music I”ve borrowed through Kaaza and have begun to dig. [NOTE: The mini-quest is not driven by MP3 guilt, fear of the RIAA [...]

I caught R.E.M. on David Letterman last night. They performed “Bad Day,” which is one of the new songs from their upcoming disc: “In Time: The Best of R.E.M 1988-2003″. For the record, I”m of the opinion that the actual “Best of R.E.M.” all happened before 1988 and that, in general, the band has sucked [...]