a literary confidence
Listen here to I'll Be Blasting You!: Picture This 113, which was originally broadcast on Sunday, December 14, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org. Join host Wayne Cresser and special guest, Mike "Dai Bando" Stevenson, this Sunday (12/21) at 6 PM for the third annual Picture This Christmas Party, Once again, you will find us at 90,3 FM, and streaming at wriu.org.
A few weeks after Molly Tuttle took home a Grammy for her Crooked Tree album, she and her band Golden Highway visited the new Groton Hill Music Center, which is as awesome a music venue as you will find. Read the rest and More! More! More! at the Mischief Time Blog!
Everybody at the Club is talking about it! The Book of Norman, Wayne Cresser's new collection of short stories, which is for sale at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lulu and Kobo now.
Good news about The Book of Norman, my new collection of short stories.
"A comedic universe awaits in the stories of Wayne Cresser’s The Book of Norman, a landscape that revolves around his Everyman protagonist, Norman Winters, suffering the relatable slings and arrows prevalent in a world of prevaricators, weirdos, and bullies so you don’t have to." Now available at Amazon, Barnes. Lulu amd Kobo.
-by Dai Bando (originally published in The Hobbledehoy): https://thehobbledehoy.com/) - The Voice Squad "The Parting Glass" (from Waking Ned Devine 1999) The Hothouse Flowers front man Liam Ó Maonlaà (surname pronounced O’-man-lee) performs this in 1999’s Waking Ned Devine but I prefer the recording sung acapella by The Voice Squad. Said music critic Rick Anderson, "The Voice Squad represent the melding of two related but... Continue Reading →
On the track "Rubylove" (Cat's nod to his Greek heritage) he features traditional bouzouki and sings a verse in his Cypress-born father's native language. And thank god for Greeks: lamb souvlaki, dark olives, John Cassavettes' movies, Platonic relationships, Nana Mouskouri and Cat Stevens.
A Pokey LaFarge show is like watching Cab Calloway and Jimmie Rogers together onstage, only they’re both Pokey. Add a little Ernest Tubb, and maybe a little Ernest T. Bass, as well.
Just Between You and Me 