Recliner Notes

2026 Big Ears Preview Everyone has a different Big Ears. There are so many different choices to acknowledge when determining one’s path through the more than 250 individual performances that make up the festival. This h…

I have the privilege of once again covering the annual Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. Here's my preview of the 2026 edition, complete with navigation tips for first-time festival goers along with my tentpole acts . Big Ears runneth over!

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"The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter."

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Still from Mel Brooks' High Anxiety with an arched entrance that reads The Psycho Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. A smaller sign on the gate says "keep in"

High Anxiety

This was a cool show!

Typos! Edit button please!

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Aren't @jonnyleather.bsky.social's photos gorgeous?

Review: Makaya McCraven at AyurPrana Listening Room — Asheville Stages The future of jazz has arrived.

I was honored to review Makaya McCraven's excellent show last week! Alongside Junius Paul and Marquis Hill, McCraven creating a dynamic context for them to excel as individuals and as a unit. We are fortunate to be here for McCraven's prime.

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Review: Makaya McCraven at AyurPrana Listening Room — Asheville Stages The future of jazz has arrived.

Got some decent shots of Makaya McCraven and his trio during his recent stop in Asheville. Also, check out Scott's great review of the show.
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Edsel Axle :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard Variable Happiness was made available to the world in August 2023, courtesy of a previously unknown artist named Edsel Axle. But it doesn’t take much detective work to determine that Edsel Axle is a n...

I love this album! I return to it often. I interviewed her about it for AD:

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The album cover for Duran Duran - "Rio" combined with the Bob Evans logo

Thanks for this recommendation!

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man (Official Live in London 2008)

Forty years later the klezmer-noir of Leonard Cohen’s ‘I’m Your Man’ LP remains the most radically successful reinvention of any of the major songwriters from the 1960’s. A moral and geopolitical hellscape staged as Vegas review. One part Rat Pack, one part Leviticus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZOT...

Catalog listing for a conference session on the Blues For Allah sessions

Logo of the GD Studies Association

The Grateful Dead and Friends at Ace's Studio 1975, presented at the 2026 SWPACA Dead Studies Conference

Angels In Flame - a curated guide envisioned by @bourgwick.bsky.social and executed by me, in FLAC and MP3

The Complete Collection available early next week

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Bill Callahan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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My Days of 58 is not only a document, it's an accounting of Callahan at a certain age, portraying who he is as a writer, a musician, a father, a partner, and a human being at a specific moment in time.

Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 37

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our irregular gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.

neil young recording the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man in 1995.

Released 30 years ago today — Neil Young's classic Dead Man OST. I'd take 10 more albums like this from Neil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkG7...

This should be their next album cover

In the style of Twin Peaks opening credits: Directed by Bernard Shakey

In the style of Twin Peaks opening credits: Crazy Horse

In the style of Twin Peaks opening credits: Produced by Jack Frost

In the style of Twin Peaks opening credits: Rolling Thunder Revue

The Twin Peaks opening credits generator is really fun

Bill Callahan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard My Days of 58 is the latest record from singer-songwriter Bill Callahan. What does this record show? It is not only a document, but, as the title states, also an accounting of Callahan at a certain ag...

After many years of thinking about Bill Callahan's songs, I finally got the opportunity to interview him for @aquariumdrunkard.com to accompany the release of his new album My Days of 58. His responses to my questions were hilarious, honest, and revealing

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Bill Callahan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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My Days of 58 is the latest record from singer-songwriter Bill Callahan. He joins us to discuss a recent cancer scare, repetition, and visiting his musical heroes in his dreams...

I really enjoyed this book as well! And yeah, what a revelation about Eddie Taylor!

Bill Callahan Series Teenage Spaceship – January 1, 2023 Feather by Feather – January 8, 2023 Say Valley Maker – January 15, 2023 The Well – January 22, 2023 Vessel in Vain / Let Me See the Colt…

And here's a link to my series of deep dives on his songs:

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Bill Callahan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard My Days of 58 is the latest record from singer-songwriter Bill Callahan. What does this record show? It is not only a document, but, as the title states, also an accounting of Callahan at a certain ag...

After many years of thinking about Bill Callahan's songs, I finally got the opportunity to interview him for @aquariumdrunkard.com to accompany the release of his new album My Days of 58. His responses to my questions were hilarious, honest, and revealing

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Review of Hyperglygh by Chicago Underground Duo

In my review of the Chicago Underground Duo for AD I compared their song "The Gathering" to something out of Scavengers Reign

So many moments in that show!

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Superb show by Makaya McCraven, Junius Paul, and Marquis Hill tonight! Review coming later this week