Recently I started reading Into the Mystic, by Christopher Hill, which is fairly new (2017). I'm only a few chapters in, but so far it's fantastic. It's a look at how the '60s became a "detonator" to "explode visionary music into the mainstream" (from the back cover). It's a nice counterpart to Rob Young's comprehensive... Continue Reading →
“Where are the great black guitarists?” (Part 2: Here they are!)
When I started my last post, "Where are the great black guitarists?" I kinda thought it would go, "What, are you dumb? Look at all these black guitarists!" But 2000 words later, it had become...more. So I decided to separate into two halves, one ideological and historical, the other "check out all this majesty." If... Continue Reading →
Katarina von Sporken
Violent Brain Fever 