Nick Tosches Month

Here's a great essay written by Joe Bonomo about our hero.

Two Pizzaburgers Please!

Joe Houston & a Half Ton Of Glamor, Jet Magazine, 1955.

Joe Houston  -  Two Pizzaburgers Please

Nick Tosches Month

Nick Tosches Month

Super Heavy Blues Express

Forty-two years ago today in downtown Atlanta, the Super Heavy Blues Express came to town.  And what a truly astonishing line-up -  Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Al Hibbler, with Jelly Roll as an added attraction.

Via the pages of Atlanta's radical underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird and the Georgia State University Library Archives.

The Lovely Jewel Brynner

Singer Jewel Brynner (yes, her name was a nod to chrome-domed actor Yul Brynner) is shown here in early 1959, performing at Pittsburgh's Hi-Top Lounge with Wee Walkin' Willie.  Via the Jet archives.  Photo by Clarence Pennywell Jr.

Fast Freight

Happy birthday, Ritchie ("Arvee Allens") Valens

I Like Peanut Butter

The Four Blazers - Peanut Butter

Nick Touches On Fool's Paradise With Rex

September 3, 2011

Psychose!

Nick Tosches On The Hound's Show

June 29, 1991

July 11, 1992

Also see the Hound blog for more insight and inspiration.

The Devil In George Jones

This richly illuminating profile of George Jones comes to us from Nick Tosches, and was published by Texas Monthly back in 1994. It's highly recommended reading and a mighty fine way to spend an hour or two Nick Tosches Month.

Image via Tommy Bishop.