I'm honored to have won this award.

Nice reviews of my two-volume ethnography of 60s British pop

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A song a day to keep reality at bay...

Lonnie Donegan covers Huddie Ledbetter's "Rock Island Line" so closely that the two recordings are only seconds different in duration, albeit with Donegan's awkward attempt at imitating the American's iconic voice.

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Being a dual citizen of Canada and the US has turned out to be awkward this week. How does one explain the coup that is currently underway? Or the threats of economic war? Or the assaults on color and gender identity? Will a new Gestapo show up at my door?

And here's a link to the interview with Amy Dodge, host of Windsor Morning on the CBC. Although we do talk about the book, she also wanted to play up my roots in Windsor.

Recorded an interview with the CBC this morning that will air next week.

Winter bloom in my office.

And, while I'm at it, here's a Q&A with Chuck Vosganian at Northshire Books, Saratoga Springs.

And part 2 with Mark.

Here's part 1 of my interviews with Mark Lynch at WICN, Worchester, Mass.

I think we're closer.

American Thanksgiving, à la neige

"The ONLY guitars endorsed by President Donald J. Trump."

—claimed on Truth Social by Trump Guitars, which has received a cease-and-desist order alleging infringement on the design of Gibson's Les Paul

And here's an interview that WAMC's Joe Donahue did with me about volume one of my book about sixties British pop music.
www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...

Pleased to announce the publication of my two-volume book on Sixties British Pop!