Encounters with Quine
Named by Rolling Stone as one of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," Akron native Robert Quine remains one of rock's most overlooked musicians.
The Lost Quine Interview
We’ve covered guitarist Robert Quine pretty well in this blog, especially here and here. But I had to throw this post together after my sister came across a long-lost article in the bottom of a [...]
Ricky Nelson and James Burton
The first real band I joined (“real” meaning paid gigs) was The Warsaw Falcons, a neo-rockabilly outfit based in Cincinnati. I was fresh out of college and just landed a job downtown, editing a [...]
Encounters with Quine
My cousin Robert Quine was a bona fide guitar hero (number 80 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” – right after Cliff Gallup of Be Bop a Lula fame and before [...]
The Blimp has Landed
Welcome to Rubber City Review. It’s not intended to be Akron-centric, but I should probably kick things off by asking the question: When it comes to roots-rock and other mutant forms of modern [...]