by Kile Smith | Feb 10, 2014 | Broad Street Review
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 10 Feb 2014. Reprinted by permission.] Maybe I was watching Chuck Connors in Branded that Sunday night, the 9th of February, in 1964, but I know I did not see the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Already at seven, even with...
by Kile Smith | Nov 23, 2012 | American music, CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
It’s the composer/electric guitarist Steven Mackey on Now is the Time, Sunday, November 25th at 10 pm. Performed by eighth blackbird, Lonely Motel: Music from Slide considers isolation and self-delusion. A psychologist whose fiancée has abandoned him...
by Kile Smith | Jul 20, 2011 | CDs, Pop Music, String Quartet
My colleague AJay McLaughlin is the co-songwriter, along with Richard Bush, for most of the tunes of the Philadelphia rock band The Peace Creeps. On their new album Time Machine is the song “Cold,” for which they wanted to have a string quartet...
