When Bobby Darin’s version of “Mack the Knife” hit the charts in August 1959 I had just turned six and was on the cusp of first grade. It’s fair to say that “Mack the Knife” owned the charts that fall and winter, charting for 26 weeks and spending nine of them…
My parents’ record collection was slim pickings when I was a kid. My dad mostly chose the records. He had Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Mitch (“I hate rock and roll”) Miller, The Harmonicats, 101 Strings, and, although my parents never attended the theater, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Hello Dolly! (so many exclamation points), West…
Ihttps://open.spotify.com/track/4VCneRupMEMbaQGlU7CTnM?si=62bd945b60cf4c60 I wrote this song with my friend and bandmate John Kargacos around 1978 in San Diego where we were playing in the band Streetlife. I can’t exactly remember who wrote what but we called it a 50-50 composition. John sang it. It was many years later, when the song…
What does the road offer? Solitude? Isolation? Alienation? Loneliness? Peace? All of the above?
Steve Klingaman’s 2021 LP release
Here’s a link for on-demand Mixcloud playback of the Lenne Klingaman Radio Nowhere interview with Joe Pszonek of WMSC in New Jersey. Lenne’s interview starts at about 16:00. See the previous blog post for more info about the interview. (Click on title to view full page.)