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2008 Stories by Jonny Whiteside

• Jody Reynolds, 1932-2008

  published November 20, 2008

  Singer-guitarist Jody Reynolds, the West Coast rockabilly provocateur whose riveting, morbid 1958 hit “Endless... More >>

• The Power of the Honky Tonk Mind

  published November 13, 2008

  Few musicians burdened by the rockabilly yolk manage to transcend it’s implicit limitations, yet local veteran James Intveld has done... More >>

• Best Jungle Look: The Safari Room

  published October 2, 2008

  The old-school themed restaurant was a peculiarly mid-20th-century American institution, wherein a straight-up steak house operated within an... More >>

• Havana Comes to Hollywood

  published September 25, 2008

  The Cuban flutist-bandleader Orlando 'Maraca' Valle's arrival at this intimate Hollywood Blvd spot is hardly small potatoes. After all, he just... More >>

• Bring Me My Gallows, Kiddies, I Feel Like Swinging

  published September 18, 2008

  Born from the mid-80's Hollywood hard rock underground, Brian Small's Hangmen almost immediately stood out from the pack. With a ragged but right... More >>

• Babegrass Rules

  published September 4, 2008

  The Hello Darlin’s, a new venture from banjo pickin' sensation Vicki Hill and the Cheatin Kind's Babs MacDonald, seems poised to usher... More >>

• Carlos Guitarlos

  published August 21, 2008

  The ferociously talented blues-rocker, best know for his association with 80's-era Hollywood legends Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, is one of this... More >>

• Take Him as He Is

  published May 29, 2008

  Veteran country-music star Little Jimmy Dickens may be best known for his novelty smasheroo "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" and... More >>

• Rockabilly Singer Glen Glenn: 50 Years of Classic Jump Music

  published May 15, 2008

  Although running into the California rockabilly singer Glen Glenn backstage at the Henry Fonda Theatre last January was no... More >>

• Silver Lake's CMH Label Strikes Gold With Two Oddball Ideas

  published April 3, 2008

  Colonel Jim Silvers, 70-something in-house producer and talent wrangler at Silver Lake indie-label CMH Records, is a... More >>

• Hacktone Records: Packaged Goods

  published February 7, 2008

  There's a moment on Arthur Alexander's Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter, the Hacktone label's current release,... More >>

• Ken Nelson: L.A. Loses a Record Man

  published January 24, 2008

  The passing of Ken Nelson, the former head of Capitol Records' country division, should not go unmentioned, especially at a time of such... More >>