THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT … a true story
It has been nearly a decade since I released my first solo CD THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT ... damn. There are no more original CD copies left in the closet (but if you want one I can make you [...]
The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers
The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers ... by Bob Crain Here is a song from the Bob Crain LIVE performance called The Last Of The Old Folk Rockers ... and I hope this will not be the [...]
It’s a Lotto World
I wrote the song It's Lotto World back in about 2010 ... nothing much has changed probably more people now with their lives completely hinged on the outcome of a bunch of numbers bouncing around in a big [...]
Retirement Homes For Nuclear Weapons
Retirement Homes For Nuclear Weapons With the Super Powers and wannabees around the world once again using the specter of Mutually Assured Destruction via nuclear weapons as a methodology to keep us all "under control" and our heads in [...]
THE MUSIC LED THE WAY … YES IT DID
All songwriters and musicians have influences it might be Beethoven or Bach or it might be Stills and Mitchell … but we are all influenced by the music that came before us, that we listened to, that has left [...]
Forsaken Veteran of the Drug Wars
THE WAR RAGES ON A couple years back my friend and California Hip Hop Rap artist J.Smo wrote and produced the Folk Rap Fusion version of a folk rock song I originally wrote in 2010 which was included on [...]
FM Radio … the times the music
FM Radio ... the Times the Music Below is an excerpt from the book – THE HAIGHT –ASHBURY A HISTORY by Charles Perry – Charles Perry is a long time writer and correspondent who began writing for Rolling [...]
Fossil Fuels from Bob Crain – LIVE
Here is FOSSIL FUELS - TRACK 2 - a track from Bob Crain - LIVE ... put to a little video. With the price of the product that moves our ride going up and up I thought this was an [...]
Songwriting 101 by Bob Crain
Here's a little essay I wrote about songwriting some time ago but it still holds true today ... it was published on the US Music website Middle Tennessee Music You can get a taste of my songwriting on my Reverbnation [...]
Bob Crain – LIVE
For all of you out there around the world who would like to see and hear me play live (I know you are out there) I will be playing with my band Ashbury Medicine Show in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at [...]