Playlist: https://shorturl.at/WhzPz Was different from 1964. 1964 was all bright and sunny, brand new. Credit the Beatles and the tsunami of British acts that followed them on to the radio. The radio… Record companies still talk about it, but youngsters do not. But in ’65 the radio was everything. Everybody had a transistor and everybody […]

The hype is deafening, but will Jesse Welles break through? Not according to Spotify, where his streams are anemic. But I keep getting e-mail from people telling me he’s the great folk rock protest hope. So I checked him out. You’re going to be immediately put off by his voice. I know, I know, Bob […]

I had the privilege of working with David between 2000 – 2003 in his “Harry Smiths” era. We played at the Bottom Line once a month and other NY area venues- and a short European tour. There’s 2 albums “David Johansen and the Harry Smiths” recorded on Chesky records. They were both recorded at St. […]

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0g5Q91cZOhHEUWdmoS1C3N?si=89b7c7d59771476f 1 He was a survivor. Until he wasn’t. I won’t say he reinvented himself as much as Bowie or Madonna, then again Johansen was forced to, because nothing he seemed to do broke through, rained down cash. So if you were a child of the sixties, you didn’t want to go into […]