1965 had to be bittersweet for Clarence White ( pictured far right ) and The Kentucky Colonels. In February of that year, fiddler Scotty Stoneman ( pictured far left ) joined the band for a half-year stint, transforming the Colonels into perhaps the greatest bluegrass group of all-time. If Clarence and Scotty weren't the Bird and Diz of bluegrass ... which is what I contend ... they were at least its Moon and Entwhistle . Unfortunately, the downside to that musical brilliance were diminishing paying gigs. By 1965, bands like The Beatles, Stones, [...]
John Leyton-"Johnny Remember Me" (1961, covered by the Meteors) Rick Nelson-"Lonesome Town" (1958, covered by the Cramps)

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." - Mark Twain "Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence." - Will Henry "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." - Ernest Hemingway "A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will."- Spanish Proverb "That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them." - Alfred Sutro "I have [...]

Well, since we're on the subject of early rock n' roll "teen" stars who definitely don't get the respect they deserve, let's talk for a moment about RICK(Y) NELSON. While this post may seem out of the blue, it's unfortunately quite timely. Unfortunate because it was 22 years and one day ago, December 31, 1985, when Rick Nelson died alongside his fiance and band in a plane crash on his way to a New Years Eve concert in Dallas, Texas. Rick Nelson's early career on his family's radio and television program (the massively popular The Adventures [...]
1957 Little Richard, Keep a-Knockin'. Johnny Cash, Big River. Rick Nelson, Stood Up. The Diamonds, Little Darlin'. The Gladiolas, Little Darlin'. A winter afternoon in Hibbing, Minnesota, in the late 1950s. A pair of teenage boys are messing around with a tape recorder. Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, age approx. 17: This is Little Richard (1)...(fakes wild crowd noises into