by Michael Corcoran I didn’t know that my mother kept everything I wrote since I started in 1963 at age 7. I first got attention for my writing in the fourth grade in Mountain Home, Idaho, when I penned a poem that included the names of all my classmates. It was pretty crude stuff- “Victor […]
BOSTON. The closest thing to going to a Beatles concert since the ‘60s is Paul McCartney’s current show, which ends with a flurry of Fab Four songs that will leave your heart- and ears- throbbing in ecstasy. It was LOUD Wednesday night at the home of the Red Sox, as the 67-year-old McCartney turned in […]
(Rich Minus passed away in 2016 at age 75. This was written for a tribute/benefit while he was alive). First time I met Rich Minus was on Will Sexton’s 17th birthday. An RV had been parked in the back of the Continental Club that night in 1987 and after MCA recording artists Will and the […]
1. “The registration line was insane. That’s 20 minutes of my life I won’t get back.” “Some band just handed me an album. Haven’t they heard of cassettes?” “Do you know where Saturday’s day party is?” “Austin learned its lesson from the Armadillo. No way they’re tearing down Liberty Lunch for an office building.” “I’m in […]
Like most of the other white middle class American males born in the ‘50s, the only black gospel music I heard growing up was “Oh, Happy Day,” a 1969 hit by the Edwin Hawkins Singers and Paul Simon’s “Loves Me Like a Rock” (1973), which featured the Dixie Hummingbirds. I’d never heard the stuff live […]
It’s a week of reruns coming up for Letterman and Leno. Monday March 4 Leno- Norah Jones; Kimmel- Sean Rowe; Letterman- Little Big Town; Fallon- Bad Religion, Michael Bolton; Carson Daly- Regina Spektor Tuesday 3/5 Letterman- Buddy Guy; Kimmel- Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players; Fallon- Graham Parker; Leno- Andy Grammer; C. Daly- Curtis Peoples Wednesday […]
1987 Number of acts: 172 Number of registrants: 700 Keynote speaker: Record producer Huey P. Meaux Buzz bands: Dash Rip Rock, Reivers, True Believers, Buck Pets, Wagoneers, Reverend Horton Heat SXSW organizers can’t get the computers working at registration, so even though the turnout is moderate, waits are long. That’s something that the first year […]
Owner Steve Ricci, who looks like Rick Perry after a weekend bender, doesn’t come off too well in the latest episode of “Bar Rescue” on Spike TV. Serial killers have tested with higher LQ- likeability quotient. The reality show portrays Headhunters on Red River as the most vile nightclub ever, with an owner who doesn’t […]
By Michael Corcoran Though they may seem to mean the same thing, there’s a difference between embarrassment and humiliation. Embarrassment is trailing 60-30 and having the opposing team’s star player do a 360 dunk on you. Humiliation is having the other coach’s nerdy son- Kansas walk on Tyler Self– double his season point total with […]
They came for the music, Kelly Willis from Washington, D.C., in 1987 and Bruce Robison from Bandera a couple years later. The “rockabilly filly” and the Hill Country songsmith started dating in 1991, married in 1996 and had four kids in a span of five years. With Willis signed to MCA in the ’90s and Robison […]
