I first saw Rob Crow at the Crescent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix. He looked a bit like a demented Santa Claus in cargo shorts and a longshoreman’s cap. He was playing bass and singing backup for Nick Reinhart (as part of a touring incarnation of Nick’s band Dishevelled Cuss). Okay, so maybe I couldn’t really…
Category: Music
Stories of Death and Hope, Part 1 – David Berman and Drag City
Anyone else thinking about death lately? Self-isolated, socially distanced reflection and introspection. It can be a bit gloomy at times. Just when you see a glimmer of light in the Covid-19 storm, along comes an intensely tragic flareup of racial tensions that is reverberating around the world. It is hard to find the glimmers of…