Roots Song of the Week: Bob Walkenhorst- “Buck O’Neil”

I’ve fallen behind with my Roots Song of the Week feature, and hope this week’s song makes up for that. Last week I was pleased to again visit Kansas City during my spring break, and that means an evening at The Record Bar to hear Bob Walkenhorst perform. The night was special in a number of…

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Rex Hobart & Bob Walkenhorst (& Jeff Porter) at Kansas City’s The Record Bar

Rex Hobart and his band…whose name I’ve completely misplaced in the increasingly cluttered filing cabinet of my mind…played a terrific pair of sets at The Record Bar Tuesday night. Hobart plays the Westport establishment the first Tuesday of every month, and while he hasn’t released an album is way too long he continues to sound…

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I have made it to Kansas City!

Insert Wilbert Harrison cliché at your leisure. I was fortunate this past winter to have one of my supervisors suggest a course of training. Upon investigation, I discovered the only session being offered over my spring break was in Kansas City! As a result, not only do I get to do some much-needed professional development this…

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Walkin’ Talkin’ Dancin’ Singin’- April 26, 2010

What I Listened to This Week, beyong the usual CKUA, WDVX.com, and Sirius/XM 65: Sparks- No. 1 In Heaven: Rock n roll people in a disco world, y’all. Dailey & Vincent- Sing the Statler Brothers and Singing From the Heart: The first wasn’t quite as good, for me, as I had hoped based on “Do…

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Bob Walkenhorst

Through the 80s and into the 90s, Bob Walkenhorst was best known as the lead singer of The Rainmakers. A very cool band- and I’ve written about them before. But the point of today’s post is that Bob continues to perform weekly in Kansas City and each of these shows gets posted to the Internet Archive. Weekly…

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25 Albums I’m Really Glad I Listened To This Summer- Part 2

Continuing the journey… Pale Imperfect Diamond Cedar Hill Refugees (Effigy Records, 2009) I can’t say John Carter Cash’s production decisions do a lot for me, but on this disc- which brings the musical influences of Uzbekistan to Nashville- he and Jack Clift get it pretty much right. Jadoo is the name of the Uzbek band…

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Generic, boring bluegrass vs. The Rainmakers

So I have no energy to do ‘real’ work- the kind I make my living at- tonight, so I figure I’ll listen to one of the many CDs I have piled up on the shelf waiting to review. I won’t name the band- hell, Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain- and it is excruciating. The most unimaginative and…

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