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Torchy Blaine

If you like your country music with attitude, tune me in! "Guitar Town" 4 - 6 pm Saturdays WDVR-FM 8

About Me

LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS....Overachieving pain in the butt who wants to save the world needs new alt/country/indie musicians to do so.

My Interests

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL STEVE EARLE TO GET HIS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL SHIRT ON?1. Saving the world from zip a dee doo dah 2. Comforting lost souls, broken hearts, and everyone mentioned in Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" 3. Wearing black 4. Working to make sure that every human being in this country is treated with dignity and fairness 5. Being a bigger and better socialist than Steve Earle 6. And don't get me started on our health care system.....

I'd like to meet:

NEVER MET 'EM SO I'LL HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THE AFTERLIFE: Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, John Lennon, FDR, Emma Goldman, Winston Churchill, Woody Guthrie, Graham Chapman.MEET UP WITH 'EM AGAIN IN THE AFTERLIFE: Gram Parsons, Abbie Hoffman, Joey and Johnny Ramone.STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE IN THIS LIFE: Eric Idle, Walter Cronkite, Wavy Gravy AND MY PICK FOR NEW ARTIST 2008 IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT --- JAMES SCOTT BULLARD! Check him out!

Music:

"It's either good or it's bad.... ya either like it or ya don't...." said my main man Gram Parsons, but TOWNES VAN ZANDT IS THE BEST F*CKIN SONGWRITER IN THE WHOLE F*CKING WORLD.And this is THE ONLY WOMAN that knows what country soul is all about:Otherwise: anyone who got kicked off the Opry; anyone that got kicked out of Nashville; Waylon,AND NOW WE NEED SOME NEW BLOOD!!!! PETE BERWICK, THIS IS JUST TOO GOOD!!!!!!!Show 'em how it's done, Girls Guns & Glory!And how about this from Elvis, I mean Blake and the boys in YARN:And I think this Kid named Justin Townes Earle just might have a career here....And Joe Cassady is pretty good for a high school teacher, if he'd just get out from under the tent: Cash, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, Dwight, Hank III, Bobby Bare, Jim Lauderdale, Nick Lowe (still the Jesus of Cool),Charley Pride, Roger Miller, Chris Hillman, Buddy and Julie Miller, ELH, Ryan Adams, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Joe and Eddie Shaver, Skeeter Davis, Marty Stuart, Tuff Darts (Your Love is Like a Nuclear Waste!), psycho-rockabilly, RAMONES gabba gabba hey!,Mark Lindsay (my first luv....) and oh hell I named my radio show after a Steve Earle song so him too.

Movies:

The Die Hard series; Sean Connery's 007 series; the Torchy Blane series; anything British. And though not technically a movie, I like to watch Dwight spin around doing "Streets of Bakersfield". But this aint that video:

Television:

Blow up yer tv. Throw away yer paper. Watch Brian Molnar instead:

Books:

Whatever is in the library, odds are I've borrowed it.

Heroes:

My dad (the coal miner), my mom (a VanLear Rose), Kathy Mattea for this in particular:Gram Parsons, FDR, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Bare ("country music's answer to Bruce Springsteen"???? I THINK it's the other way round...) and Steve Earle.

My Blog

Steve Earle WILL be the next Vice President!!!!

TOLD YA!!!!! Check out the 2008 Election News update in my profile video!!!!!!
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:20:00 PST

YOU MISSED JUSTIN EARLE AT HIGHLANDS LAST NITE?

SHAME ON YOU!!!!!! Oh, People, YOU MISSED A TRULY EXTRAORDINARY SHOW! I'm telling you, if you get a chance to have this Kid playing in your neck of the woods, you owe it to yourself to go out an...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:37:00 PST

WE DID IT!!!! GRAM PARSONS PETITION PARTY IN NASHVILLE!!!

I am so proud to tell everyone that the Gram Parsons Petition Project (G3P) has collected over 2000 signatures, and we are going to CELEBRATE IN NASHVILLE NEXT MONTH! IT'S HAPPENING! Sept. 19, 2008, 3...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:18:00 PST

Todays rant about Steve Earle

And if you don't care, I understand perfectly. I only have one thing to say --- I am sick of this: (excerpts from  a July 21, 2008 review about a Steve Earle show) "He's never going to be GQ mate...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:08:00 PST

Justin Townes Earle at Claddagh, Highlands NJ August 11!!!

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE AT CLADDAGH, HIGHLANDS NJ  MONDAY NITE AUGUST 11! THIS IS WHERE I'M GONNA BE ON Monday August 11th ---The Kid is comin' to Joisey!!!! Come on down and give him a listen! I'm ...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:07:00 PST

2000 GP SIGNATURES!!!!!!

GO TO THAT G3P WEBSITE NOW!!!!!!!!
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:44:00 PST

ATTN: COSMIC-ROOTS-ALT-CANA-COUNTRY ARTISTS LOOKING FOR RADIO PROMOTION

Hey all you Americana (OKAY, COSMIC AMERICAN ALTCOUNTRY ROOTS and BEYOND) artists out there --- all of you who who are busting your butts and your wallets out there trying to put albums together, ...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:26:00 PST

TORCHY WILL BE DOWN THE JERSEY SHORE!!!

Hey Ya'll, Check out this event that I'll be representing WDVR-FM at on 7/26!Michael Patrick will be sponsoring his second annual Jersey Country Revival! (to benefit Cooley's Anemia Fou...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:16:00 PST

I’ll miss you, Hippy Dippy Weatherman!

I will miss you, George Carlin. I remember when you didn't have that ponytail; it didn't suit you, just like it didn't suit Willy Nelson. Thank God you both came to your senses and got some hair and ...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:37:00 PST

I knew this day would come

Please understand I have no intention of boring anyone with the messy details of my life; I do not want anyone's sympathy or pity. I just want you all to know that there is a disease out there that ca...
Posted by Torchy Blaine on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:07:00 PST