Author: Michael Carmody

When I was a kid growing up on the Cherokee Strip in the 1970s, the air was filled with country music, played and sung by a cast of colorful characters …

Perhaps no musician in the history of pop music is more well-known for constant metamorphosis than the late, great David Bowie, who would have celebrated his 75th birthday today. Over …

Well, here we are at the end of another exhausting year of disease, death, social upheaval, creeping fascism, across-the-board uncertainty and sundry shades of dread. As seems to have become …

This article is dedicated to the lonesome misfits of Generation X. Names of people and some places have been changed for the usual reasons. In 1983 I was an obnoxious …

The cowbell has been with us for something like 5,000 years now, from humble beginnings in Africa, where early herdsmen hung small bells made from pottery around the necks of …

On October 6, 2021, the music fans of Wichita, Kansas were crushed to hear of the passing of local legend Rudy Love. But the fact that so comparatively few beyond …