Different / Same – Rupert Hine’s “Pick Up a Bone” and Ohio Knox

Join me as we take a look at two unique albums – Rupert Hine‘s Pick Up a Bone and the self titled release from Ohio Knox – that, although quite different musically, wear their idiosyncrasies on their sleeves and share a similar spirit: a mix of the sardonic, the sensitive and the sincere. Both take…

Sound City: A Dump, A Palace

What do Bill Cosby, cult leader Charles Manson, and daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel all have in common? It sounds like the preamble to a particularly clever joke (or maybe just a particularly bad joke).  The answer, however, is that they all recorded songs in a not-much-to-look-at, often-trashed studio called Sound City.  Classic albums by artists…