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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Jesse Cunningham

It's Tonkin' Time

(Self-issued)



Look who's come through the door - a cat with no particular claims to grandeur, save for estimable multi-instrumental aptitude and seemingly effortless, rural-fashion Tele virtuosity so profound that Charlie and Floyd's Cannonball nearly flew clean off Dead Man's Curve. Lyrics would be superfluous, given instrumentals' nothin'-fancy majesty. Flutter-finger fretism enjoys complement courtesy of drumming as precise as a Swiss timepiece, shrewd bass navigations, and steel guitar that knows its home-folks territory and carries on right proud. 

(Jesse now adds serious flair to the Blast-O-Matics; their newest is reviewed below.)

Recommended: "It's Tonkin' Time," "Everyday I'm Shufflin'," "Chickens B. Pickin'," "The Train Robber," "Surf 'n' Turf," "Grandpa Walt's Waltz," "West Coastin'," "Blast Off Cowboy"

Videos: "It's Tonkin' Time"   "Everyday I'm Shufflin'"   "Chickens B. Pickin'"  "The Train Robber"    "Blast Off Cowboy"


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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..