Alan CliffeThat Merle Travis album that Doc Watson told him was his favorite — after forty-odd years I…1d ago1d ago
Alan CliffeYellowstone, the first season.The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly…Sep 7Sep 7
Alan CliffeThe Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima on DVD.There was one other thing that I remembered, but only when I heard it; it hadn’t stayed in my conscious memory. It was Lucia, the oldest of…Aug 30Aug 30
Alan CliffeIn the morning/few were left to watch/The ashes die.Willy and the Poorboys needs a lyric sheet if any album does, but those lines — from “Effigy” — were always clear to me and they have…Aug 24Aug 24
Alan CliffeDiary from an alternate timeline, circa ’69, an excerptA tour, a fuckin’ tour. Why? To pay for studio time, hee hee hee, why else? Even though we could buy the studio on what we earn before…Aug 17Aug 17
Alan CliffeA Bastille Day GreetingAgainst stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.Jul 14Jul 14
Alan CliffeThe majority-fascist Supreme Court has just cleared the way for the U.S.That’s the Supreme Court. But what about the Christo-fascist mass movement that is of a piece politically with the Court majority? I don’t…Jul 2Jul 2
Alan CliffeThe central phenomenon of the twenty-first century may turn out to be that masses of people choose…Jul 1Jul 1
Alan CliffeOn SalingerI’ve been coming across about five million hatchet jobs on J.D. Salinger by hateful phonies — I mean, they’ve got to make sure everybody…Jun 23Jun 23