COMING SOON- The Debut Album “Silent Spike” First Single Release: March 2025 Album Release: July 4th, 2025 Silent Spike is a concept album that provides a meditation on the experiences of the “Railroad Chinese” (also known as the “Silent Spikes”) who built the first Transcontinental Railways in Oregon, California and […]
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Electric Guitar 1989 ESP Traditional Strat (1957 specs) 2014 Fender Stratocaster (1957 specs) “Mahler” Stratocaster (1963 specs) Fender Telecaster Gretsch Bo Diddley with TV Jones Billy Gibbons and Brian Setzer signature pickups Gretsch 6120 with TV Jones Classic and Classic + pickups Gretsch Round Up 1962 Gibson ES-335 with PAF […]
“From Maine to California, thousands of communities kept out African Americans (or sometimes Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans, etc.) by force, law, or custom. These communities are sometimes called “sundown towns” because some of them posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, “N*gg*r, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On […]
Lily White Mine Disaster. Located northeast of Baker City in the Wallowa Mountains, the Lily White Gold Mine is thought to be the source of unverified stories about as many as 100 or as few as 13, Chinese miners being trapped in the mine sometime between 1886 and 1889. Either […]
“By the mid 1940s, Chinatown’s residents had gradually moved on, although the historical record does not tell us where or why they left. In the 1970s, after over a century of a Chinatown in the heart of Baker City, the last of its buildings was torn down. Of the approximately […]
“During the year 1893 a time of great economic depression, a great deal of agitation against the Chinese arose – it being felt, particularly by the unemployed, that the Chinese were taking work away from the whites. On 24 September of that year a great mob of men visited Chinatown […]
From: The Worcester Observer Worcester Editorial 27th May, 2023 0 Comments ONE OF the county’s most successful festivals has put together a one-off, all-star group to perform at the event The Elgar Festival – which runs from Tuesday (May 30) until Sunday, June 4 this year – will welcome Blue Enigma whose […]
From: The Worcester News 18th May 2023 By Mike Pryce KEN Woods is a real piece of work. To be more precise, a combination of a piece of work by Edward Elgar, a piece of work by Jeff Beck, Buddy Holly and probably Stevie Wonder too. I am not sure […]
