Welcome to The SongBook!

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really! Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in THE LAST WORD on Paul Adams Listening Theme: THE ROLLING STONES REVIEW

NEW SONGS ON UP from CRACKER, [...]

Morst's Pick of the Week: HOLLYWOOD COWBOYS

James Bartoli has done it again. For the past several years, he’s recorded the CVB & Cracker Belly Up gigs in Solana Beach CA and shared em up on archive.org. He’s just posted this sweet one from a month ago, and so the pick has to be Camper Van Beethoven’s COWBOYS FROM HOLLYWOOD. Just gotta! [...]

bigDAVE’s Video of the Week: Hickman LeRoy Triple Threat

This week the songbook™ brings to you Johnny Hickman and Chris Leroy
from camp out 2. This is a very rare triple treat for you, Lucky, Whole
Lotta trouble, and the San Bernardino boy! …. man, I remember this
like it was yesterday!! … This video is from the Iamacracker2
collection over on youtube! ………….. check it out [...]

Paul Adams Listening Theme: THE ROLLING STONES

I’ve spent a fair bit of time listening to the Beatles lately so I thought it was about time I covered The Rolling Stones.

This will include Stones studio albums (I’ve always been more of a Beatles fan and have to admit that I’ll be listening to most of these albums for the first time!), live [...]

bigDAVE's Video of the Week

This week the songbook™ brings to you Johnny Hickman and his fret 12 interview. Here Johnny is interview on everything from his style, influences, his guitars, touring etc…. I must say these were some very good questions. This is a fifteen part interview and the the entire interview can be found here —> [...]

MORST PICK OF THE WEEK :FRIENDS

Last week’s pick was the first Camper Van Beethoven song of 2010, this week, we’ll get it going with Friends, the start of the Cracker set from the very same show. The song originally appeared on Johnny Hickman’s solo album Palmhenge, released in 2005, and was redone with a full band arrangement for Cracker’s 2009 [...]

40 Forever: And the winners of the 2010 Pura Belpré Award are . . .

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

And the winners of the 2010 Pura Belpré Award are . . .

From the ALA/ALSC website:

(Since I helped write the press releases, I think it’s okay if I just cut and paste.)

The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, [...]

Paul Adams Listening Theme: THE WHITE ALBUM

Paul Adams

January 15 at 3:13am

Listening Theme – The White Album Challenge

Well, Elvis has left the building (sorry, had to be said) and after a couple of weeks of The King it’s the time of Chris LeRoy! (a tough act to
follow Chris). Chris has been a champion of my Listening Themes from very early on and [...]

Drive Byes: Johnny Hickman on Free Art

ROAD BLOG; Art is FREE. WHEE!

I’m not going to pretend to be an economist. I’ve already shared some theories on why our country is in financial decline, and who knows if I’m right. But right now I’m in a somewhat obsessive phase of reading world history, especially the history of Stalinist Russia. I’ve begun to [...]

WELCOME TO THE SONGBOOK HIGHWAY

Today you’ll find new content from MORST, REBECCA (40 FOREVER), and bigDAVE, and lots of songs from our music family… really! Also check out the essays at DRIVE BYES (Kinks and Stones) and get in on Paul Adams  Listening Theme: THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM FAN CHOICE

NEW SONGS ON  UP from CRACKER, CVB and THE [...]