The blues that emanate from J.P. Soars are as diverse as the road he travels. Born out West in Anaheim, California, a very young J.P. and his family moved to Cedarville, Arkansas. Just to narrow that down, Soars tells me. “It’s in between Ft. Smith and Fayetteville.” In his teens, the family relocated again, this time even further east to …
The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas '75 was originally intended to reach both North and South America. The plans for concerts in Central and South America never solidified however, and the tour covered only the United States and Canada.
Director Lara Slife on “Our City Tonight” TVLara Slife made her directing debut with “Born To Lead: The Sal Aunese Story: ”The First Samoan quarterback, who enters a down and out football team and takes it to the National Championship.”CLICK ON IMAGE TO PLAY VIDEOCLICK HERE for the website.
The 1978 Some Girls tour features Ron Wood’s best showing as a Rolling Stone in my view, and they were supporting a wildly popular album. – Emperor of OldiesThe Rolling Stones’ 1978 Tour of America took place during June and July of 1978, following the release of the group’s successful “come-back” album “Some Girls.” (The album‘s lead single “Miss You” …
Is chocolate the way to a person's heart? It seemed that the iconic screen star Cary Grant thought so when he devised a romantic tryst during a stay at the downtown Mayfair Hotel (now the Magnolia St. Louis). Grant would lodge at the hotel after performing at the adjacent Orpheum theatre. When his eyes first set on the18th floor suite, he was charmed by its 1930-40s glamour and style, and it became his designated suite of choice.
Movie poster courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment.Did you know that the star-studded movie, The Conqueror, featuring John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead was filmed in a nuclear-infected desert sand that caused the early deaths of the actors and movie crew? Our City Tonight’s host Jim Gordon does a one-on-one interview with Writer/Director, William Nunez about his powerful, new documentary, …
If you were to run into Ben Rice on the street you'd probably think that guy's a lawyer, maybe a realtor or possibly an accountant. But when he straps on his guitar, leans into the microphone and blisters those first few chords you realize; that guy is not an accountant! Rice and his bulked-up sextet, the PDX Hustle, recently made a few West Coast appearances on a quick, 10-day romp through the Southwest.
On March 4th and 5th, 1977, The Rolling Stones played two unannounced shows at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto, Canada. The club had a capacity of 300, and the gigs were “secret,”with winners of a contest invited to see Canadian rock band April Wine with support from a group called “the Cockroaches,” who were actually the Stones. Earlier that …
I find it hard to believe it's been three years since we lost James Harman. That's probably because his music is still on such a high rotation across all my playlists. So imagine my delight when friend, Nathan James walked over and handed me a brand new James Harman CD from Electro-Fi Records. The disc entitled, 'Didn't We Have Some Fun Sometime' features twelve fresh tracks all written by the man himself; James Harman. The recordings were captured online during pandemic 'live streams' or in studio recording sessions at Nathan's Sacred Cat Studios in Oceanside then produced and mastered in his new digs in Mountain Center.
In the last T-Boy article, The Film Soundtracks in Our Lives, Part II – Traveling Boy, we covered the source of many of our favorite musical soundtracks in film. The titles ranged from Alfred Hitchcock & Bernard Herrmann's Psycho to Richard Lester & The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night. In Part II, we discuss the relationship between film director Francoise Truffaut and composer Maurice Jaubert in Le Chambre Verte,L’Histoire d’Adèle, L’Homme qui aimait les femmes and Argent de poche; Jaubert’s first piano prize; banned films during the Nazi occupation of France, saved by Henri Langlois et la Cinémathèque française; Maurice Ravel as Jaubert’s best man at his wedding; and La Nouvelle Vague and the politique des auteurs.
