the singer and secret city
In the early 1990s, fortune smiled when I crossed paths with talented photographer Jason Langer... The alt-rock project that was Myself...
until the hatchet is buried
Liner notes from the limited edition vinyl release of Jeff Bright & the Sunshine Boys – Kill off the Night, releasing March 2022
on instant karma cannot get me
For some human expressions there is no divine time, no appointment with the zeitgeist, no cozy alignment with destiny. Most acquiesce to...
satisfaction, I can't get no
Rock-and-roll music, what is it? From what urge does it emerge? From where did it come? By now, nearly three-quarters of a century past...
on the edge of night
Collected Liner Notes from Darke County's Edge of Night LP & Associated Singles Darke County in 1990 as photographed in San Francisco by...
skinny arms ache to hold you
In the middle of 1991, shortly after Darke County re-ID'd into Myself a Living Torch, now-Harlan Bobo, Chris Green, Christopher Fisher...
the beautiful inside the obscene
1992 and 1993 were prolific years for Myself a Living Torch. In early ’92 we entered San Francisco’s Brilliant Studio as a curious...
the curious case of myself a living torch
Somewhere around 1990 or 1991 we got woke.* That is, sometime in the early 1990’s, guitarist Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo), bassist...
rust belt gothic
With the rust belt states playing such a conspicuous role in the U.S. presidential election, I've been thinking about my own roots — and...
instant karma cannot get you
Like it has with a lot of people, an event this past week here in the US of A has my thoughts spinning — and my better self wrestling...