Elvis Ate Dynamite
Good-Bye Elvis
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I promised not to be too serious on this blog, so instead I’ll share this one-panel Far Side comic from about 38 years ago. It’s about grizzlies from hell, but it’s about so much more. As it happens, this comic is particularly appropriate today. You see, in late July 1987, a day after it first…
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Happy Friday after Thanksgiving, everyone. Hope you had a great holiday, and I hope you’re enjoying some time off. I’m kicking off the holiday season, as I do every year, by playing “Christmas in Prison” from John Prine’s 1973 album, Sweet Relief. It was Christmas in prison And the food was real good We had…
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Photo: Jennifer and I hanging out with Terrance Simien after a show, Sept. 2025. And it turns out, she still does. Thirty-two years ago, on the night before Thanksgiving, I met Jennifer, my wife-to-be, in a bar on Madison Street in Forest Park, Illinois. Appropriately enough, we met by the jukebox where my longtime friend…
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Bruce Springsteen sings “I’ll See You in My Dreams” in Dublin Most of the artists I listen to are a good 10 to 15 years older than I am. Joe Strummer, for example, was born in 1952, 10 years before I was, and had he not met an untimely end at age 50, he’d still…
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I woke up this morning to the news that reggae legend Jimmy Cliff passed away at age 81. What a tremendous loss for the music world in general. I posted this quick video on Instagram on my YouTube channel, so I thought I would share it here, too. I first came to reggae through the…
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In two minutes fifty-nine. Today’s installment of Black Coffee and Electric Guitars features a very un-Clash-like Clash song, “Hitsville U.K.,” from the 1980 triple album, Sandinista! The song’s lyrics epitomize the DIY spirit of early punk rock, but it has a very different sound, with organs and marimbas front and center. Nonetheless, it’s pretty straightforward…
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If you’ve looked at some of my recent posts, you might get the impression that this is a Bruce Springsteen fan page, but it’s not. Well, it kind of is, in that Bruce had a pretty big impact on me, I’ve seen him play live multiple times, and I play … let’s just say lots…
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As I mentioned yesterday, we finally got around to seeing Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the biopic that covers the period when Bruce recorded and released the solo, mostly acoustic Nebraska LP. For us old timers, that album holds a special place in our hearts. But, as I said, the movie is about more than…
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After a handful scheduling conflicts over the past few weekends, my wife and I finally saw the Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, on Saturday. Here’s the short version of my review: I liked it. Here’s the much longer version. First, I recognize that it hasn’t made much money at the box office…
Elvis Ate Dynamite 