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Walking with Jimmy McCracklin

July 9, 2021August 3, 2022 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Artist: Jimmy McCracklin

From: a point of contention; either Elaine, Arkansas or St. Louis, Missouri.

Song: ‘The Walk’

Recorded: 1957

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Tornado!

June 11, 2021September 26, 2022 / N. P. Ryan / 1 Comment

The Jiants

Members:

  • Jerry Hedges (guitar)
  • Andy “Russell” Anderson (vocals)
  • Bill Lee Balsbaugh (piano)
  • Ron Wolfe (drums)
  • Ray Umbarger (bass; not shown in the picture of four)

From: Marion, Indiana, U.S.A.

Song: ‘Tornado’

Released: 1959

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Mercy! The Collins Kids

June 1, 2021August 3, 2022 / N. P. Ryan / 4 Comments

The Collins Kids

Members: Lorrie and Larry Collins

From: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Song: ‘Mercy’

Released: 1958

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The Echo Valley Boys: Wash Machine Boogie

May 30, 2021August 3, 2022 / N. P. Ryan / 2 Comments

The Echo Valley Boys

Members:

  • Bill Browning
  • Art Fulks
  • Merl Hoaf
  • Jackie Wooten
  • Roy Barker
  • Marshall Looney

From: Ohio, USA.

Song: ‘Wash Machine Boogie’

Released: September 1957

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The Great Rock n Roll Little White Lie

May 17, 2020September 20, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / 1 Comment

The story of how I found out one of the U.K.’s greatest recording studio’s best kept secrets; something any music tourist would probably prefer not know. Continue reading →

Killing Joke & How I Might’ve Almost Ended-up Being a Porn Star

November 18, 2019September 20, 2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Recently I’ve been thinking of writing something about how certain songs can take me to a very specific time and place.

Last week I was lucky enough to see Continue reading →

The Mystery of What Happened to Madonna at Eurovision

June 2, 2019February 11, 2022 / N. P. Ryan

Madge, me and the Brixton Academy; the latest entry in the Diary of a Mad Pest Controller.
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Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank the Lord for liquor loving hot chicks. Though nothing compares to how it’ll feel catching up with Her.

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck greedy at marrow. With every gun pointing my way, Hell, not even He’s gonna get me outta this one.

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A question of context, perhaps perspective; maybe a journey through the unwinding impact writing can have: the calm sea at which the stream of consciousness ends having started on a harsh, craggy mountain side . . . Or maybe it’s nothing so dramatic as that and instead just a pondering on whether things were in […]

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While it’s safe to say Jesus Christ didn’t visit Weston-super-Mare, what about anyone else thought an incarnation of God by followers of a religion? How about that incarnation of God also being someone once given weapons and ammunition by the Nazis with which to fight a war? Or to up the ante more so, the […]

The Idiots’ Guide to Being a Successful Musician

The Idiots’ Guide to Being a Successful Musician

And what’s more it comes in poetic form! Header image (cropped from original) showing the Rolling Stones on stage by Jim Pietryga, 2015, licensing.

Handsome Devil

Handsome Devil

A.k.a. the vain atheist’s prayer. With thanks to Максим Власенко for use of the header image (alt text; a man visible from the waist up, naked, painted red and wearing horns, he looks to the camera unamused).

Hey, Teacher!

Hey, Teacher!

Contemplating the origin of teaching in abstract poetic form. With thanks to  Andrea Piacquadio for use of the header image (alt text; a teacher with an open book, looks to the class while pointing at a chalk board). 

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