Look at that photo. It's hard to put on pretenses when you grow up in such a place. Kristie Stremel and I have deep roots in western Kansas. We both know it's not acceptable to get above your raising. Accordingly, Color of Stars, the new album by Kristie Stremel & the 159ers, fits this open landscape. Tough and unblinkingly honest, all twelve songs feature meat-and-potatoes rock in the vein of the first two Tom Petty albums. Songs like "Best Kiss" and "Unstoppable" are capable of kicking an affected indie-rocker from Atchison to Ulysses. Stremel makes me proud to be a Kansan.
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I'm impressed by this Gayngs initiation.
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Dick Griffey of Solar Records has died.
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Kansas City Click: An email from the Power & Light District's marketing department promised that "Salvia" will headline a free concert Wednesday. They meant, of course, these guys.
Those Darlins play the Record Bar on Thursday.
(Original image of Kansas by There Stands the Glass.)
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