Chapter 32 FARE YOU WELL [excerpt]

Subject: Carlisle Montgomery, Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, Brokedown Palace, Truckin', Friend of the Devil, Longstreet's, Wilmington, N.C., Harry Kollatz Jr., Richmond, Va., Kurt Cobain, Dr. John, Django Reinhardt, Rule of Party Bands Images: Photographer, Ashley Marie Myers. Subject: Andrea Whitt The Live Wires played Wilmington, N.C., on the day the world heard about the Grateful …

Tied Up In Your Story

Here she is, ladies and gemmen, Elizabeth Wise, from the In Your Ear Shockoe Sessions, in which I make a cameo appearance bearing an armload of Carlisle Montgomery. Come for the blues, stay for how NPR tunesmith BJ Leiderman introduced Elizabeth to In Your Ear and the reason why she fashions a guitar slide from …

Word For The Wise

I've received a wonderful invitation from Richmond's In Your Studios to join the wonderful musician Elizabeth Wise and her Crew in a live Shockoe Sessions, 7:30 p.m., Tues., July 14. There'll be a cameo appearance of "Carlisle Montgomery." A further word for the wise: The event will broadcast on IYE's main Facebook page. The platform …

The Carlisle Montgomery Virtual 2020 World Tour

Hi, ya'll! Hi ya'll! Guess who is now available by eBook, through Primer Books and Ebook Alchemy? She's rested and ready for her virtual world tour. Dates coming soon. Here's the link to get you started: http://www.ebookalchemy.com.au/TitleDetail.php?recordID=9780648170730

“Carlisle Montgomery” Interview on Acme Radio, Nashville.

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Live Wires At Cary Street Cafe

For those of you who follow along --and if you've not yet acquired personally inscribed first editions of Carlisle Montgomery, well, you have two excellent chances up coming.  Sun., Dec. 15, 2-5 p.m., the Chop Suey Books Brew-Ho-Ho at the Hardwood Park Craft Brewery on winding mysterious Ownby Lane. I'll be there with a slew …

“Lumbering, Creative And Engaging” — The first “Carlisle” Review

[Images: (left) Primer Fiction, publisher; right, Harry Kollatz Jr.] Writer and critic Robin Rushing gives "Carlisle Montgomery" her first published review, in Richmond's Style Weekly. Tip of the Hat  For good or ill, when some locals think of Richmond personalities over the last 30 years a handful stand out. To wit: Douglas Wilder, Dave Brockie, …

Israfel, Carlisle, Poe, and Me

pinThe Poe Museum 1914 E https://www.facebook.com/events/624338698047361/Main Street Save the date and bring your folding money or check to the Poe Museum, at 12:30 p.m., Sunday, July 7. Come and hear the evocation of the demiurgic force that compelled Edgar Allan Poe to create; at least, in the novel's Poe bio-pic. Then engage in matters commercial, …

That Cattywumpus Fence/”The Glorious Fourth”

isle's been away from Richmond for the better part of two years leaving behind home, dog, and man, Chris Carrick, a sculptor and restorative carpenter.

Times and Places…