Since it's almost Halloween, I thought a blog post about Screamin' Jay Hawkins might be fitting for this spooky season.  Over the years of rock & roll, there have always been what I call Shock Artists; those whose artistic impulse…

To me, Chester Burnett aka Howlin Wolf, will always be a touchstone to the exact moment I discovered just how important music played in my life.  As time went on, I spent endless afternoons in school daydreaming about Wolf's music…

NUGGETS: ORIGINGAL ARTYFACTS 

FROM THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC ERA

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American psychedelic and garage rock singles that were released during the mid-to-late 1960s. 

Nuggets was originally released in October…