A Magazine of Popular (and Unpopular) Culture
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 …
All’s Well That Cowbells
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Cruel Summer (and Autumn and Winter)
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 …
Rudy Love: This Song Is for You
As a young man just entering my 20s I fell for a time into the orbit of a Jane. It was then that I first noted the preponderance of songs …
Jane! Jane! Jane!
This is a true story and includes discussion and links related to the traumatic events of 9/11. It also details the period of my life in which I was prescribed …
I’ll Fly Away
The latter half of the 1990s was a transitional time for the music industry. Production of vinyl records had petered out almost entirely and the long-popular cassette format was plummeting …
Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist
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The Party Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore
What you see above here is the Proudfoot & Bird Radio player, loaded up and ready to go with more than 50 songs written (and in a few cases co-written) …
Proudfoot & Bird Radio
Several months ago I kicked off the Honk Journal Food & Drinks category with an article about family recipes, which included the recipe for my Okie grandmother’s legendary Cowboy Cookies. …
Cowboy Cookies International
Forty years ago today, on August 1, 1981, an upstart television network made a rather wobbly launch. Marred by technical glitches, packed to the brim with marginal, almost random content …
Too Much Is Never Enough