~laz
Artist Highlight: Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars
Out of New Orleans with a great sound, solid songs and vocals and sweet arrangements…check’em out!
Long time no post!
Our “webmaster” took a left at Winnemucca. We have sent out scouts. Updates due here soon.
Some old footage of a young ‘Hoss’
FACT: Nobody in the radio world plays more Larry Hosford than we do!
Facebook recently coughed up a newly ‘unearthed’ video of our longtime friend singer, songwriter, and raconteur, the late Larry Hosford and his band at a beer opry in Texas circa 1975. If you get past the first 4 minutes of the drummer & roadie fooling with the drums, the production quality is remarkable, Larry is in good voice and “The Fly By Night Band” is running on all cylinders.
“Americana” from a UK perspective yields a nice interview with Corb Lund
We follow a blog out out the UK that covers not only most of the domestic “Americana” artists we play, but others from around the world. Yes, Americana artists that aren’t American! Shouldn’t that be illegal? Anyway, lots of good interviews, insights & reviews in this publication: https://americana-uk.com/
A couple of Good Gerlach Nuggets from the wayback machine…
An NPR piece on Gerlach, Nevada circa early ’80’s about “The town too tough to die.”
And an earlier piece from National Geographic circa 1971:
