Monthly Archives: May 2012
Donna Summer and 9/11
I was saddened to hear about the recent death of Donna Summer. Miss Summer lived in Nashville during a time when I was under contract with a music publisher. An engineer/producer/musician who used one of our studios as his home turf, worked with Summer and became her musical director for a time. She was a [...]
Soul Grooves: Donald "Duck" Dunn
On May 13, American music lost one of the most influential bass players of all time. You might not know his name, but if you’ve been listening to music since the 1960′s, you’ve heard the man play. Dunn was a member of the soul music band Booker T. & the MG’s, known for their instrumental [...]
To Hell with Nirvana
On a recent episode of Coincidence Control Network, I reviewed Hit so Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel. I viewed the flick at the Nashville Film Festival and this rock doc is just now starting to open in theaters. It tells the tale of the hard living drummer of Courtney Love’s band [...]
Coincidence Control Network: Episode the 22nd
Here we go again! It’s time for this week’s installment of the Coincidence Control Network podcast! This week Nicholas Pell, Ken Eakins, Kim Monaghan and myself apply our collective insight to the pointed examining of: The Balsa Wood Titanic, The Phantom of Winnipeg, May Day and Occupy’s Second Wave, Kim’s Favorite Bedtime Story, the Dark [...]
