by M.C. Antil on December 22, 2018
He and his buddy, a brilliant young picker named James, were two Louisiana teenagers from Shreveport who’d made a few records with their boyhood pal Dale Hawkins before heading west to seek whatever fame and fortune they could muster. I’ll spare you all the machinations, but the important thing to know is that at a […]
by M.C. Antil on September 30, 2014
Forgive the delay, but I am writing this today from little Verona, Italy, where I’m spending a month drinking wine, pretending to be a local and letting my mind and body clock unwind to a degree I would have never dreamed possible at this time last year. I will continue to write from here and […]
by M.C. Antil on September 8, 2014
I look around and realize that my keyboard and I are heading into the home stretch. Part 7 of 10 is now in the books. For those of you, perhaps, new to this list of my 300 favorite singles of the ’60s, please keep in mind, this is not intended to be anyone’s idea of […]
by M.C. Antil on June 16, 2014
The second installment of the 300 pop singles released between 1960 and 1969 I’d want to have with me on a desert island; where, God willing, I’d find a jukebox with a set of speakers the size of palm trees. (And, to all you nitpickers, just in case you were wondering; the jukebox will be […]