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Depending on how long you ve lived in San Francisco, and by extension, how long you ve been reading the Bay Area Reporter, the name Howie Klein may be familiar to you. Klein, who wrote about music for the BAR 40 or so years ago, was a radio DJ who co-founded the legendary 415 Records label. 415 was home to important San Francisco bands including Romeo Void, Wire Train, Translator, The Nuns, Pop-O-Pies, and Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, to name a few.
In Los Angeles, Klein went on to work for major label conglomerate Warner Brothers/Reprise/Sire where he supervised artists including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Depeche Mode, The Pretenders, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Green Day and others.
When it comes to recognizing and embracing promising talent, the gays have been at it longer than practically everyone else. Remember the Bette Midler/Barbara Hershey movie
Beaches? Remember the opening sequence with the lead characters as children? That was a young Mayim Bialik in one of her earliest film roles, playing Midler s C.C. Bloom as a kid. Ask any of us and we ll tell you we knew she was going to be a star.
Since then, Bialik has had her own hit network sitcom in the 1990s as the titular
Blossom and stole the show in every scene in which she appeared in the even more successful 21st-century sitcom
There s so much to recommend about
Daddy s Country Gold, the dazzling new album by out singer/songwriter Melissa Carper, it s hard to know where to begin. Carper s distinctive vocal style not only recalls the sounds of vintage classic country, but it also suggests Billie Holiday, especially in the Western Swing of Making Memories and I Almost Forgot About You, which has the potential to become a jazz standard.
Throughout the album Carper honors country music tropes - My Old Chevy Van is a song about a beloved vehicle, while Back When and Many Moons Ago recall the tradition of looking back on lost love. She also strikes gold with her unique sense of humor on Would You Like to Get Some Goats? and then proceeds to stir our hearts with the gorgeous album closer The Stars Are Aligned. Carper was kind enough to answer a few questions shortly before the album was released.
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