Brendan Smith - Part TwoBrendan Smith my friend of 40 years, is a great guitar player and songwriter from Sonoma County Calif. He also plays electric guitar in the band Uncle Wiggly, along with John Heide, Tom Padrick, Jeff Forehan and me.In
Brendan Smith - Part OneBrendan Smith is a legendary underground guitar player and songwriter from Sonoma County Calif. Now, "legendary underground" is oxymoronic if not ironic, it means he is really good and not that many people know about hi
A few years ago I did a monthly radio show on KRSH FM in Santa Rosa Ca. It was called Happy Hour and I played my favorite funny, happy, amusing, ironic and funny songs. Today I’d like to share what I think are some of the icons of amusing music
By Blair HardmanJim Boggio was called the King of the Stomach Steinway, and the Lord of the Belly Baldwin. Keyboard magazine said he was one of the three best accordion players in the United States at the time of his death in 1996.But he was
Ken Nordine was a huge influence on me from the first time I heard his “Word Jazz“ album when I was 16 years old. I loved his profound yet kindly voice, and his offbeat stories combined with cool jazz. I even got to interview him once in 1992 o