It is with sadness in my heart that let you know that Pintop Perkins has passed away. it was my great honor to have met this true legend of the blues and heard him perform. He will be missed and his music will bring us comfort for having heard it. From Wikipedia, the free... Read more

This may be a SMALL thing, but seem to have a life of its' own. One of the twenty-nine songs of Robert Johnson is "Crossroad". By the passage of time and ear-to-mouth transfer of the title it has become crossroads by the addition of the s on the end. Let's set the record st... Read more

The boss at WWOZ asked us tree elves to write about a 2010 WWOZ highlight:     Don't tell my sister this but I had Gemma, my 14 year old niece, tally sober versus drunk callers during my Saturday midnight until 3am show.  The ratio of sobers to drunks was two and a half dru... Read more

Anniversaries Week(of fear!)   My dogs are deathly afraid of bad weather so I was not surprised to wake up to a familiar nose-to-snout view of Wally's fearful eyes.  Wally's a big baby.  I went right back to sleep.  Rain puts me into lala land.  I woke up to Mary's alarmed ... Read more

Trout did a fine job with "Crossroad" this week, I had a chance to listen while in Cherokee to do a little gem mining. Libby and I are at our "summer / retirement" home in North Carolina for the week. As I said we went to Cherokee and found a lovely garnet (2 caret) that L... Read more

What is it With World Cup Soccer Fans? This Sunday, July 11th, 13 hours after my midnight show, one out of six people in the world will be fully engaged the same activity.  One billion people will watch the World Cup final.  Billion not million.  Think of the last time you ... Read more

Untold thousands of barrels of uncut crude oil have been gushing out of a small hole on the ocean floor, off the coast of Louisiana, for a month now. So, it’s no big surprise that it has come ashore to coat the grasses of the marsh, kill the birds and torment the turtles.... Read more