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Nostalgia- A Cosmonaut Orbits the Earth While the USSR Breaks Apart.

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with tags Camper Van Beethoven, Cosmonauts,
Cracker, Ivanovich
on July 16, 2010 by davidclowery

06
Nostalgia
Track 6 from Cracker’s 1993 album Keronsene Hat. Here is the story in the song. A cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich is orbiting the earth in the Mir space station. While [...]

Updated name… because we are mighty! THE MIGHTY GRASSHOPPERS!

So…. this prototype album art below will not work with old name, and when did that beard appear?

Chris will have to shave for the real album debut in September 2010….

Who wants a bumper sticker?

More information on Chris LeRoy’s new band THE MIGHTY GRASSHOPPERS [...]

Rocking songscripting from the Cracker family

author: mungo
Chris LeRoy and Johnny Hickman were The Dangers way back before Johnny went on to play guitar in The Unforgiven and then co-form Cracker, with whom he still performs today. The Dangers didn’t release albums back then, but Dedication saw some of those [...]

DEATH OF ME: THE ONE AND ONLY ALBUM

The cover. Jesus lies dead in Mother Mary’s arms just hours after the Crucifixion. It is one of Western Civilization’s greatest and most enduring symbols of suffering in a just cause, in this case human salvation. Alright, so it’s not going to be a feel-good party album. The [...]

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 [...]

(RAY DAVIES IS) THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Early 1969. I’d read in Rolling Stone and Circus Magazine that a great album was soon going to be released. A yet untitled album by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Anxious to buy it, I headed to my local record shop at the mall to find it, to experience [...]

Because we dig it here is the newest Hoppers song, MOCKINGBIRD. It has garnered some great feedback so let’s hear it once more shall we?

Also check out our Categories for a road map to MORST’s MUSIC PICK OF THE WEEK, 40 Forever’s next book review, bigDAVES’ VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK, and Paul Adams Music [...]

Wait, wait, wait a minute. I know what the globules of thought gathering in your frontal lobe are saying, but stop a second. Put aside all of the last 20 years of mega-tours that seemingly printed their own money with The Tongue on it, tours that featured songs mostly thirty and forty years old. Put [...]

Gary K. Nomeland is a a writer. His serial novel is called Goddess Moon. He co-wrote the lyrics to the coolest Death of Me song, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, and he will be a regular contributor to The SongBook Highway. Today he ruminates about the King of Pop…Mr. Bob Dylan. This was written before the death [...]