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The Model Is Broken

It’s very well-established. You take your time to record an album and you keep it alive on terrestrial radio. In the best of circumstances you dribble out track after track, keeping the album alive for years. But that was then and this is now. The “Billboard” chart has become irrelevant. It’s completely manipulated. Want to […]

Re-Billy Strings

Hey Bob I don’t think you’ll be surprised that we’ve been fortunate enough to have hosted Billy several times at Newport Folk.  Hell, we even had him play two different sets/days last year coming out of covid. One where he played a “traditional” set dedicated to the bluegrass masters before him and one where he […]

Billy Strings

He’s big everywhere but Texas. And maybe Santa Barbara. But in the rest of America HE SELLS OUT! This is the artist development story of the year, and it’s been growing for the last half decade. Strings is finally breaking through. You might have seen him briefly during the Grammy telecast, then again he was […]

Go All The Way 50th Anniversary

Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3NxGAyD 1 It was released fifty years ago Sunday. The Raspberries were an AM band in an FM world. FM started on the coasts, San Francisco and New York, and by time “Go All the Way” was released every metropolis had an FM outlet. And that meant if you listened to FM you never […]