Results for Ocean Blue

  • The Rock, the Roll, and the Catfish

    by Denise SullivanMay 7, 2008Comments (6)

    And yet rock would hardly be rock as we know it without the big daddy of the roll: "Rollin' Stone" by Muddy Waters, the song that launched at least one rock band (read more)

  • Standing on the Corner Studying Rules of Verse: A Visit With Sweet Jane

    by William I. Lengeman IIIJanuary 16, 2008Comments (14)

    Like many people who came of age in the ‘70s, my first exposure to Lou Reed's music was by way of the perversions and doo-da-dooing colored girls that populated the sleazy world of “Walk on the Wild Side.” I was 10-years-old when the song first hit the airwaves and was more concerned with the likes of the Partridge Family than with the harder stuff. (read more)

  • Band of Horses

    by Angela ZimmermanOctober 10, 2007Comments (1)

    "the overall aesthetic is a source of solace" (read more)

  • Every Pebble On the Road, It's By Chance We Met

    by Jocelyn HoppaMay 16, 2007Comments (19)

    A few weeks ago, I awoke to a sunny Friday morning in San Francisco. I dropped $2 on a Colombia brewed coffee, loaded into my dusty and dented purple Ford Escort, and headed out of the city for an hour drive to Sonoma to meet Paul Williams, the godfather of rock journalism. (read more)