Drinking from Puddles

Sometimes in music-journalism the words icon and iconic get employed pretty liberally. But when you’ve had a 40 plus year-long recording career, with audio documents released in six different decades, and have sold roughly 38 million records, with songs played on hundreds a... Read more

Live on Drinking From Puddles for 07/06/11 it's both Ezza Rose (early) and the return of Cheyenne Marie Mize (late) !! Ezza Rose was born and raised in Julian, California, a small gold rush town on the border of the Anza Borrego desert and San Diego county line. She moved t... Read more

Live on Drinking From Puddles for 06/22/11 it's Point Juncture, Wa. !! "Don’t let the name fool you, Point Juncture, WA actually hail from (where else?) Portland, OR. That said it isn’t really important where they are from, but rather where they are going, and, with the rele... Read more

Voodoun Moi perform Live on Drinking From Puddles for 04/06/11 !! "Picture this: A bar in the early years of jazz, notes floating softly from the stage and smoke lingering in a thick haze. Okay, now throw that bar into a time machine, sex it all up a bit, and set the date ... Read more

Little Scream should be stopping by early in the program before her performance at the Doug Fir Lounge tonight with Sharon Van Etten!!: "LITTLE SCREAM'S MUSIC is-like her moniker-full of perfectly satisfying contradictions. It is at once familiar and completely distinct; e... Read more

The Builders And The Butchers perform Live on Drinking From Puddles for 03/09/11 !! “The Builders And The Butchers’ musical output is something of a Pentecostal throw-down—the musical underpinnings are reminiscent of bluegrass, but the performances are raw and unschooled,... Read more

Little Sue to perform on Drinking from Puddles for 01/26/11 !! “Susannah “Little Sue” Weaver grew up in West Virginia and, amid the late-90s No Depression boomlet, was arguably the Portland face of alternative-country. “I had never heard country until I moved out here,” We... Read more

Revered Portland poet, musician, activist and scholar Stephen Spyrit recently passed. This is a audio tribute aired on KBOO-FM's Drinking From Puddles program which aired on 11/17/10   Read more

Live on Drinking From Puddles for 11/10/10 both Mark Growden and then Cheyenne Marie Mize !! First up: Mark Growden ! "As a composer and performer, Growden has released several critically acclaimed albums and performed at venues such as the Fillmore and Great American Mus... Read more

Live on Drinking From Puddles for 10/20/10 it's the return of Hillstomp !! "Portland Oregon junkbox blues duo HILLSTOMP is infamous for digging through the dumps and forgotten backwoods of American music, recycling traditional elements into a refreshing and distinctive bran... Read more