With a howling and unholy mix of punk country blues, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club exploded upon the L.A. club scene in the early ’80s. They recorded their [ … ]
Month: January 2021
The Devil’s Triangle Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas
The Devil’s Triangle, James Smallwood, Kenneth Howell, Carol Taylor, University of North Texas Press. Paper, $19.95. Non-fiction, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This book is a well-written study of the War of [ … ]
Mel Gibson’s The Wild Bunch Remake for 2022
Sam Peckinpah’s ultra-violent 1969 western epic The Wild Bunch is the latest movie classic to be given the remake treatment by Hollywood. The Passion of the Christ and Hacksaw Ridge’s [ … ]
Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls; Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws
Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls; Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws, Jerry Thompson, University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95, Paper. Nonfiction, U.S. History, Illustrations. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, [ … ]