FEATURE NO. 1
Cold Calling Hollyweird
How two unknown musicians from Minneapolis found their way into the offices of Los Angeles music executives without a manager, an attorney, or a single industry connection.
FEATURE NO. 2
Dean Kay: The Man Who Listened
The songwriter behind Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” who listened when no one else did.
FEATURE NO. 3
Eye to Success
After PolyGram signed his publishing company, Arlo rented an office that had once belonged to Prince’s first manager—and learned that looking successful and being successful are two very different things.
FEATURE NO. 4
The Night the Rock n Roll Highway Turned Purple
A late-night limo call to a purple house in Chanhassen puts Arlo behind the wheel for Prince and Carmen Electra—and inside a conversation that would make headlines around the world.
FEATURE NO. 5
Shawn Phillips and the First Music Festival of the New South Africa
In 1994, Arlo Hennings managed Shawn Phillips on a historic tour of post-apartheid South Africa, including the first Splashy Fen music festival of the new era.
FEATURE NO. 6
The Real Story Behind Donovan’s Sunshine Superman
After 45 years apart, Donovan and Shawn Phillips finally reunited at the Royal Albert Hall.
FEATURE NO. 7
Living Beneath the Stage
A 15-year-old guitarist’s firsthand account of Woodstock 1969—from the mud and communal chaos to sitting beneath the stage and experiencing Jimi Hendrix.
FEATURE NO. 8
Iggy Pop and the Hell’s Angels
A backstage pass to a 1970 Wisconsin rock festival — Ravi Shankar, blues lessons, and the night Iggy Pop and the Stooges closed out an era.
FEATURE NO. 9
Leonardo Pavkovic and MoonJune Records
A two-year partnership with the founder of MoonJune Records — Indonesian jazz fusion, a ‘pal deal’ with no contracts, and the story it left behind.
FEATURE NO. 10
Journey to the Last Jimi Hendrix Experience Concert
A brutal hitchhiking journey across the Great Plains to see the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s last tour — and the road that shaped a life.
FEATURE NO. 11
Journey to the First Earth Day Festival
At seventeen, joining ten thousand strangers in the Rocky Mountains for the first Rainbow Gathering — utopia, hardship, and a stone that still remembers.
FEATURE NO. 12
Jay’s Longhorn
A YouTube interview with the musicians and bartenders who lived the Minneapolis punk scene at Jay’s Longhorn — Vitamin Q, The Suburbs, Hüsker Dü, and the people who booked and poured for them.
FEATURE NO. 13
Before the Suburbs, There Were the Tsetse Flies
A firsthand correction to the record on the Minneapolis punk scene — the short-lived band that came before The Suburbs, and the rehearsals that never made it into the liner notes.
