Chuck’s Blog

Elizabeth Cotten performs "Freight Train"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UWLBHL9wI&feature=related Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (1895-1987) built her musical legacy on a firm foundation of late 19th- and early 20th-century African-American instrumental traditions and fine musicianship. She strung her guitar upside down, the bass notes to the bottom. This meant she would thumb the treble strings while finger-picking the [...]

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I have a long-time, semi-secret passion for big old airplanes.   I’m especially turned on by the last of piston-engine -driven airliners, many of which had their careers shortened by the onset of the jet engine.  Sexiest of the bunch?  The Lockheed Constellation.  Thanks to pilot pal Peter Smith, here is some rare Connie porn:
Arthur Godfrey - [...]

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Lest we forget:  The great Otis Redding died in a plane crash 40 years ago this month, just a few days after recording ”Dock of The Bay” — He was from Georgia, not Motown, so it was easier to miss him, I guess.  I won’t ever forget his soulful voice. 
GO SEE:  Into The Wild, amazing film - [...]

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Happy Anniversary to my parents, both now deceased.   They had one of those hurry-up weddings, not because a baby was on the way, but because Lt. Charles B. Kruger was headed off to war.  As fate often has it, by the time he shipped out to England to fly B-17 bombing missions over Germany, there [...]

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