Author: folkbum

I’m in the crowd somewhere: You can get, free of charge, Rhett Miller doing a live version of that song, solo and acoustic at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, GA, here.  Plus 18 other songs.  Free.  And legally.  I promise.  I get no compensation for telling you–I just think it’s a…

I haven’t been posting here lately because I plowed myself into a long and involved writing project at SchoolMattersMKE, the group blog focusing on education and schools in the Milwaukee area. To make a long story short–and it is a long story, about 6,000 words all told–there is a class…

I first met Mike Tate in 2003.  For a while, the Howard Dean campaign in Wisconsin was almost entirely being run out of my living room, with my wife and me organizing fundraisers, visibility events, MeetUps (remember those?), and whatnot.  But I was an amateur, no matter how many conference…

I want, first, to thank everyone who made the impossible nearly happen last night; mountains got moved just to create the opportunity to recall Gov. Walker, and those who moved them deserve our sincerest and strongest praise. And congratulations to Senator-elect John Lehman–not to mention new Senate Majority Leader Mark…

I don’t know if I should be relieved or offended that (so far, at least) my inbox and twittums haven’t filled up with demands for me to BYGAWDSAYSOMETHING about the BIGHUGESCANDALERIUM about Kris Barrett, wife of Milwaukee Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett, having written I guess four emails of…

Donald “Duck” Dunn, who played bass for Booker T & the MGs, has died. You might remember him best from The Blues Brothers.

I have been going to the Cafe Carpe in Ft. Atkinson for almost 20 years now.  I’ve seen many greats in that tiny, 50-person room, from Greg Brown to John Gorka, and occasionally played there myself.  It is without question one of the best listening rooms in America. This weekend,…

No, not Tom Barrett–though, forfightinbobssake, go support the crap out of him–but, rather someone else. With his loss in Indiana’s primary last night, we’ll no longer have a Dick Lugar in the US Senate.  That leaves a badger–Wisconsin’s very own Ron Johnson–with the Senate’s most juvenile name.  Congrats, Sen. Johnson!…

One of the nice things about being slave labor at the Zach Wisniewski Home for Wayward Bloggers posting at Blogging Blue is that we have the editorial freedom to write about the things that interest us, and to promote candidates that we feel deserve support.  So even though not all…

One of the sad things about not having my own blog anymore is I can’t use it to relentlessly flog my own performances.  But I will take a moment on this Thursday Music Thursday to do a very brief bit of self-promotion. This Saturday night, May 5, the songwriting collective…