Nothing like getting out of Detroit in mid-January and rolling down to Memphis for a few days of spring-like weather. This is what the Thornetta Davis Band did this year in order to participate in the 26th International Blues Challenge. This event is the tie-in and shoe-in for all those Blues Societies which, I understand, are [...]
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 221 John Sinclair Show 328 Headpress Bunker, London, June 11, 2010 [20-1024] Detroit Life Radio 221 I’m back in London at the Headpress Bunker for this week and assembled some of my London recordings with Slim Tim Slide & George Butler, Gary Lammin, Charles Shaar Murray, and [...]
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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 191 Sinclair On The Air 48 Headpress Bunker, London, May 13, 2010 [SW-0048] Detroit Life Radio 191 I’m broadcasting tonight from the Headpress Bunker in London where I’m in residence over this weekend, thinking of New Orleans and playing music by Kermit Ruffins, the Treme Brass Band, [...]
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents Detroit Life Radio with John Sinclair 10 Fly Agaric Studio, Oosterpark, Amsterdam Saturday, July 4, 2009 @ 1:00-2:00 am [DL9-0704] It’s the American 4th of July in Amsterdam and I’m sitting in Steve and Janne’s Fly Agaric Studio near the Oosterpark—where they are kind enough to put me up when [...]
Over the years I’ve composed any number of poems that commemorate and pay homage to different aspects of this Detroit life of ours, and I’ve performed them (and many others) with scores of Detroit musicians since I started setting my verses to music in the summer of 1964. Now, 44 years later, I wanted to put them all together and record them with the musicians I know and love and work with in the Motor City, and this album is the result.
By Andrew Jones When John Sinclair was 10 years old he convinced his father to take him to their local radio station. Thinking all the R&B bands he listened to on Saturday mornings were there playing live, he was shocked to find “a square white guy playing records.” But by then his love of music [...]
(No Cover Records) As ‘daffy as a motherfuckin’ duck’ By W. Kim Heron Detroit Metro Times September 30, 2009 Music critic, convict, manifesto writer,journalist, music fest impresario, pot propagandist, radio host, editor, municipal employee, rock ‘n’ roll manager, poet, bandleader — John Sinclair’s traveled a long way from his 21st year (1962), when, having moved [...]
Reviewed by Kirpal Gordon American Book Review, October 2009 Published by Headpress, www.headpress.com, Suite 306, The Colourworks, 2a Abbot Street, London, E8 3DP, UK / second printing, April, 2009 / 298 pages / ISBN: 9781900486682; US $19.95/12.99 UK with free music-spoken word CD download Don’t sweat the tautology in the title—It’s All Good: A John [...]
