Bart Bull

God is invisible to the ignorant, and can't be seen by the knowledgeable.

Marketing: Letting the right people know, so they can let the wrong people know too. 

"I don't know if I'll ever write another song again." Paul Kelly to me, May 1997, in his "music room" in St.Kild...

"It's really quite large-ish, i'nnit?" Quoth Ian Dury to me, of . . .well . . . of "Phoenix," and of "A...

The record cover showed a big black man with a big grey beard playing a big dreadnought acoustic guitar. He had a pink short-sleeve shirt o...

Over time, Ted sent me a number of versions of his life-story. In the music business, you'd call it a "bio," but the fact is ...

Here's a little Ted Hawkins tale for you. We're in the visitors' room of Vacaville of a Saturday afternoon, with all the chaos ...

The story I have to tell here scares me. It's a long story because it has to be, and I'm in it because I've never been able to ...

C'est vrai. My new copain, compadre, comrade, Julian from Columbia, tauromaquier, polyoptician, brilliant illuminator of bordels et bor...

I don't know why, but here, in Paris, on Christmas Day, such as it is, I'm inclined to write about Steve Connolly, my friend and com...

"What was most heroic about Jimmy Stewart was he never tried to be a hero." In a career spanning half a century, Jimmy Stewart has...

Not every horse can win; nearly all can lose.

Q. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A. The nest.

I'm pondering pensively, I'm considering meditatively, I'm thinkin' 'bout thankin' 'bout . . . about. . . abo...

Ok, so girl-genius Kate can apparently hurl pearls like this at will: "Takest thou a job in haste; enjoy thy redundancy at leisure....