Dave Bombeck Quintet featuring Claire Monroe

Dave Bombeck Quintet featuring Claire Monroe

A Kay GOD DJ Playlist

There are records you play to impress your friends.

There are records you play while cleaning the house. Continue reading →

Jim Marzipan

Norton Street at Kay GOD

Some musicians chase perfection.

Jim Marzipan chases whatever happens to be drifting through the studio door around three in the morning. Continue reading →

Norton Street on Kay GOD

Psychedelic Sounds Orchestra

There are psychedelic albums, and then there are albums that seem to have wandered in from another universe. This is one of the latter. Continue reading →

BEATLESS

Every once in a while a band comes along that seems somehow strangely familiar.

Not because you’ve heard them before—but because you somehow remember hearing them in another lifetime, or because I used a gag as a band name. Continue reading →

JANICE & THE LOST HORIZONS

Somewhere between the last AM station and the first rays of dawn, there was a band that almost everyone remembers… although no one can quite prove they ever existed. Continue reading →

I spent the night working on covers, liner notes, things like that. Continue reading →

NORTON STREET: BOURBON STREET

Liner Notes

What happens when the strange universe of Norton Street drifts south until it finds itself wandering through the French Quarter at two o’clock in the morning?

It discovers Bourbon Street. Continue reading →

Entering Norton Street

There is nothing you have to believe.

There is nothing you have to understand. Continue reading →

What Exactly Is Doo-Wop?

One question we’ve begun hearing is, “What is doo-wop?”

Not everyone grew up with it, and for many younger listeners it may be an entirely new musical language. Continue reading →

The Strange Disappearance of Fame

People often ask me what it was like knowing this famous person or that famous person.

The funny thing is that many of those names no longer mean much to anyone. Continue reading →