Teach Yourself | en
In the fall of 1977 at a John Cale concert at CBGB the opening band was the Mumps. Sitting in the front row was the president of their fan club, Bill Arning. He was 16. A couple of other teenagers named David Scharff and Phillip Shelley, who came in from the suburbs to see Cale, arrived early to get good seats. They sat at the table next to Bill, and ended up befriending him.
A week or so later they saw each other again, this time at a Patti Smith poetry reading. Bill was accompanied by his friends Lori Reese...
Joe Buck is the pseudonym of an American musician from Murray, Kentucky. He is a current member of Hank Williams III’s “Damn Band”, and a member of Williams’ punk-metal project Assjack. He is credited, along with Williams and Andy Gibson, with engineering and producing Williams’ most recent album, Straight to Hell.
As a solo artist, he is a one-man band called Joe Buck Yourself. He is a former member of Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers and played all guitar, bass, and drums on their 2003 album Cock-A-Doodle-Dont. .
You can tell a lot about a band by how it performs offstage, as was my initial experience of Paris Suit Yourself on Thanksgiving last year. The three expatriate band members made a surprise visit to my Berlin apartment after hearing word of an American feast, hours after dinner and just in time for the vodka. Like the band's music, their behavior was as charming as it was abrasive. Drummer Joseph Heffernan, who hails from Arkansas and intentionally, if not performatively, assumes that anyone from north of the Mason-Dixon Line is from Connecticut, managed to rile up the majority of...
Cool James & Black Teacher's real names are Cool James (Jamie Dandu) & Black Teacher (J. Masena). The group was formed in Solna, Sweden and was signed to Stockholm records. They have worked with other artists like Flexx, Booster and Dr Alban and produced songs together with Ari Lehtoonen and the duo Nordlund/Lagerlöf (producer of Flexx), they have also written dance-songs for an artist called Danuma.
Their first release was the maxisingle Undercover Lovers but it never became a big hit. After that the single Thank You, Thank You (1993) managed to reach some dance charts. But it was not...
