Mary What’s Her Name

Pieces sliced straight from a quarantine dream, this photographic study of my studio is a tour of obsolescence.

As usual I used cheap-o cameras for these lovely shots of my immediate-work-area and surrounding projects: LPs, cast-offs, antiques, hi-tech stuff & busted instruments, old books & trophies & lots of dust.

I wrote and performed the music, with John Ö on drums and Rob F on vocals. Thanks to both!

For those in the know, the 1967 Premier drum kit and the 1979 Rickenbacker 4001 you see were the main instruments in the rhythm section recording of this composition.

The Big Broadcast

Ed Walker, one of the Joy Boys, brought back the golden days of radio every Sunday night for 30 years.

Gunsmoke. Jack Benny. Dragnet. Lum 'n Abner. The Shadow. News of the day, much more.

The Big Broadcast played on WAMU FM on Sunday nights, mostly from 7 to 11.

The Eddie Stubbs Show

Eddie Stubbs's Sunday show on WAMU FM played a variety of classic honkytonk, traditional country and vintage bluegrass + deep catalog favorites.

This was a show for listening to while drinking beer in the sun in the afternoon, great music delivered with unique insight.

The Dick Spottswood Show

The "Obsolete Music Hour" played rare classic recordings of bluegrass, country, string bands, honky tonk, western swing, blues, gospel & old world music.

Great Music & Sports

Off-the-air live recordings of a now-defunct station playing all sorts of great American popular music from the mid-20th century, back when music was good.

You'll also find some Baltimore Orioles post-game highlights from the mid-1980s.

News & Music on WAMU

From elections to 9/11 to the war on terror, these off-the-air live recordings of events of the day are from NPR on WAMU FM.

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Mary What’s Her Name

More Quarantine Videos: Découpage & Time-Lapse

The pandemic has given me time to continue documenting my studio's evolution, as well as the projects built therein, inlcuding time-lapse & animated video assemblages of mixed-media découpage pieces being built, set to fresh remixes of music I composed, arranged & performed.