Bart Bull

The merrier, the merrier — more or less.

by Bart Bull By 1950, Hank Williams was the biggest thing in country music,  the biggest thing there'd ever been in country music, and...

How  Davy  Crockett, Walt Disney, Mitch Miller,  Tom Dooley and the Beverly Hillbillies Conspired To Invent Folk Music (originally publi...

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.

When the Rolling Stones' processional played Los Angeles in the fall of 1981, the opening acts were the J. Geils Band, George Thorogood ...

by Bart Bull (published in  SPIN;  excerpt from May, 1986 cover story: "Black Narcissus") It wouldn’t be fair  to say that Prin...

I guess you know what the problem with Prince is: he's too good.  Too bad, too. Because he's so good he can do anything he wants, an...

My dog has died; your dog is dead.

In an age of "social media," can we now all agree to suspend use of the term "community"?

Today is the last day of the rest of your life.

A big problem with wisdom is that it looks so much different than being smart.  from "The Wise King"

It's never too late to die.

"The folkies who discovered the banjo and bluegrass in the 1950s and '60s were sweeping up an instrument notable now for its all-wh...

The ditch stays the same —  they just hand you a different shape of shovel.

In this life, only the most obvious things are likely to happen, but the amazing ones are absolutely certain.