FRIDAY Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun With special guest Austin de Lone This Telecaster wrangler, from Austin, Texas, via Maryland’s Western Shore via Ann Arbor, Mich., is a roots music treasure. His country picking fueled the Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen cover of “Hot Rod Lincoln” — a riff that every wannabe country picker tries to nail. On a podcast at blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch, we talk about how he came up with that early-1970s riff — “originality born of incompetence,” he jokes. We fast forward all these years to his brand new record, “Seeds & Stems,” and stream three songs from that disc, “Too Much Fun,” “Down To Seeds And Stems Again” and “Flip Flop.” His band, Too Much...
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