By Steve Newton Back in the late '70s/early '80s I spent way too much time working at a Canada Packers food-processing plant near Chilliwack called York Farms. It was not a great job--unless frantically stacking heavy boxes of juice on wooden pallets for eight hours is your idea of a good time. It was a … Continue reading Hearing Dan Baird sing “Van Halen wailin’ on a stereo eight-track” brings back ancient memories
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Album review: Dan Baird, Buffalo Nickel (1996)
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, FEB. 8, 1996 By Steve Newton The name Dan Baird might not be familiar to the average music fan, but to hardcore devotees of southern boogie, Baird is a hero. Former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for underrated ’80s swamp-rockers the Georgia Satellites, the gap-toothed, goofy-grinning … Continue reading Album review: Dan Baird, Buffalo Nickel (1996)
The Georgia Satellites’ Rick Richards prefers three chords and a clouda dust
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON SEPT. 20, 2001 By Steve Newton Sometimes I feel like I’m the only guy around who still goes nuts for southern-fried guitar boogie, the kind the Georgia Satellites churned out so mightily in the late ’80s. But after talking to GS guitarist-vocalist Rick Richards from his home in the southern-boogie mecca of … Continue reading The Georgia Satellites’ Rick Richards prefers three chords and a clouda dust
Paying tribute to Dan Baird, gap-toothed guitar-rock great from the Georgia Satellites
By Steve Newton I figure it's time I paid tribute to Dan Baird, former frontman for '80s riffmeisters the Georgia Satellites. With singer and main songwriter Baird at the helm the Atlanta quartet only recorded three albums' worth of southern-fried guitar-rock—1986's self-titled debut, 1988's Open All Night, and 1989's In the Land of Salvation and Sin—before Baird … Continue reading Paying tribute to Dan Baird, gap-toothed guitar-rock great from the Georgia Satellites