NO KINGS! JUNE 14, 2025
06/13/25

Fight back!

John F. Kennedy, Ottawa, May 17, 1961
03/25/25

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire.

Bummer and Lazarus
02/18/25

Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs that roamed the streets of San Francisco, California, in the early 1860s. Recognized for their unique bond and their prodigious rat-killing ability, they became a fixture of city newspapers, were exempted from local ordinances, and immortalized in cartoons.

VOTE!
08/08/24

THESE GUYS ARE COUNTING ON US.

Traveler: The Musical Odyssey of Tim O'Brien
10/21/22

Traveler: The Musical Odyssey of Tim OBrien by Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone released by University of Oklahoma Press

For five decades, as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, Tim OBrien has ceaselessly explored the vast American musical landscape. While Appalachia and Ireland eventually became facets of the defining myth surrounding him and his music, he has digested a broad array of roots styles, reshaping them to his own purposes. Award-winning biographer Bobbie Malone and premier country music historian Bill C. Malone have teamed again, this time to chronicle OBriens career and trace the ascent of Hot Rize and its broadening and enrichment of musical traditions. Traveler provides the first complete, behind-the-scenes picture of a thoroughly American self-made musical genius, the boy who grew up listening to country artists at the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree and ended up charting a new course through American music.

See you at Americana Conference!
09/13/22

Come by the 5 Spot on Thursday, 9/15, 1pm - 4pm, for food, drinks and music!

RETURN OF THE KING OF CALIFORNIA
07/15/22

After two plus years dealing with personal health issues, Dave Alvin has returned in top form, recently wrapping a highly successful nine city California band tour with collaborator Jimmie Dale Gilmore nailing the high parts. His new book comes out in the fall, and touring resumes in November anchored with the Outlaw Country West Cruise.

The Dubs
06/01/22

Back to the finals.... been there, done that!

Earth: Still The Best planet in its price range
12/31/21

Happy, Healthy, Hopeful and Wise 2022 To All!

Congratulations to The Long Ryders!!
11/19/21

The Long Ryders will receive the International Trailblazer Award at the 2022 UK Americana Awards in London.