A recent read that gives insight into before and after the folk explosion of the 1960s, referred to here as The Great Folk Scare. Great stories with a personal perspective on an era considered so important because of its connection to songwriters like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Van Ronk’s relationship with and stories about … Continue reading Marginalia #1
I co-wrote the newest Reverse Engineer ep with Kenny Johnson. It’s available on Bandcamp and streaming. Kenny and I go back two decades playing both rock and freely improvised music. I had taken a long break from music while teaching and raising kids, and noticed he had been putting out new material that I admired. … Continue reading New Reverse Engineer Release!
Here’s Sleep In Cinema’s episode on The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. I was happy to be a part of the episode and talk about my life-long love of stop-motion animation and Ray Harryhausen. Me with co-host Gareth Jones. Despite the face I’m making, I had a good time. I thought I was smiling. Thanks to … Continue reading Sleep In Cinema: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Over at The Drunken Odyssey, I review Christopher C. King’s Lament from Epirus, a book about the West’s oldest surviving folk music. Continue reading New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #18
You can read my review of Doomed to Fail over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #17
You can read my review of Dua Saleh’s Rosetta EP over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #16
A video I edited with some recent music I did for John King of The Drunken Odyssey. Below is a companion piece using the same melody from “Jolly Sailor Bold.” It’s ambient, if that includes soundscapes of a ghost ship floating over R’lyeh and awakening the Great Old One. Continue reading Sailor Lugosi’s Dead
The Terror Test is a podcast made by teachers about horror movies. They are currently doing a series of episodes related to Sady Doyle’s book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power. As part of the series, I interviewed Southern root-worker/Tarot reader EllieMae Plantagenet about the influence of the … Continue reading Some Terror Test Updates
Stull exists in two realms: One is as a improv rock trio and the other is as a recording project based on a process that begins with Tracy’s percussion/field recordings. You can hear them woven together in the Stullification playlist. When we’re in a room together, I mostly play bass. On these recordings, I play bass and … Continue reading “The Brain Destroys the Animal”: New Stull Track
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