What Do You Think About the Piano?

Posted by Lance Davis - June 2, 2014 - Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, Ian Stewart, Jerry Wexler, Jim Dickinson, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Muscle Shoals, Rolling Stones

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Today’s post ties together several of my earlier posts, which is always a goal of The Adios Lounge. “Everything’s connected,” as we were reminded last week in The Roots of Keith Richards. Two months ago, Jay Farrar & 8-Track Heavana featured The Rolling Stones and “Wild Horses,” with appearances by Jim Dickinson, Gram Parsons, and Altamont […]

The Roots of Keith Richards

Posted by Lance Davis - May 26, 2014 - Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, Keith Richards, Lester Young, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stones, Slickers, Slim Harpo, Smokey Robinson, Warren Zevon

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I recently finished Keith Richards‘ autobiography, Life (2010), and I don’t know why, but I was surprised at the pathos, honesty, insight, and sense of history. The Rolling Stones have turned into a corporate-sponsored pirate ship, so I think I internalized my disappointment in what their legacy had become. I put off reading Life […]

Jay Farrar & 8-Track Heavana

Posted by Lance Davis - March 29, 2014 - Bernie Leadon, Bob Dylan, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, Jay Farrar, Jimi Hendrix, Michelle Shocked, Ramones, Rolling Stones, Uncle Tupelo

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Did you know that Jay Farrar of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt fame published a book last year? Falling Cars And Junkyard Dogs was issued by indie Soft Skull Press and while it’s autobiographical, it’s not a straight linear narrative. In fact, there’s not much narrative at all. It’s autobio through a series of vignettes […]

Adios Lounge Interviewed by Blues.Gr

Posted by Lance Davis - February 11, 2014 - Adios Lounge, Beastie Boys, Blasters, Bo Diddley, Bob Forrest, Charley Patton, Grand Champeen, Johnny Cash, Levon Helm, Li'l Cap'n Travis, Minutemen, Rolling Stones

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Father and daughter honing Roll Tide game face

A couple of weeks ago, my interview with Michael Limnios of Blues.Gr was posted to his website of the same name. Blues.Gr is “the online community of people that got the blues in Greece” and it blows me away that there is such a thing. 100 years ago, if for some inexplicable reason you […]

Lotta Poor Man Got The Cumberland Blues

Posted by Lance Davis - January 29, 2014 - Everly Brothers, Grateful Dead, James Burton, Merle Haggard, Rolling Stones

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“We didn’t find it difficult to write pop songs, but it was VERY difficult — and I think Mick will agree — to write one for the Stones. It seemed to us it took months and months and in the end we came up with ‘The Last Time,’ which was basically adapting a traditional […]