Three years ago at this time, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, Mississipp and Alabama hard. The USA hasn't really been the same since.The musical community, however, has always come to the aid of its brothers and sisters. In the wake of Katrina, many ad hoc charitable organizations formed for the express purpose to getting money and things directly into the hands of those affected, without t...
Peter Case, who you might remember as the guy from The Nerves and The Plimsouls, has his 10th solo album coming out tomorrow (Tuesday), Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John. Yesterday's L.A. Times gave it a rave review and kept comparing him to Woody Guthrie. What more could any serious singer songwriter want? When his producer, Ian Brennan, played it for me last week, I asked Peter to put together a ...
