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Sunday, April 5, 2026

The Honkytonk Wranglers + Jake Vaadeland

This reviewer believes fools turning deaf ears to such gently gladsome, family-and-friends musicalizing (that climaxes in Old Time Religion uprightness) can just run up an alley and holler fish. 

Video: "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)" / "I Saw the Light"


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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Jake Vaadeland

"Everybody Loves My Little Darling"   single

(Self-issued)



Even elders scramble from rocking chairs for this playful good spirit. It's packed to bursting with bounciness (animated counter to the hapless protagonist's plight amour.) Folks are swept along in a manner holding true to tradition; none of the calculated Pop feebleness presently masquerading as Country music. Rest assured, no instrument was invited in that hadn't previously caused clod-kickers to kick up Brogans.

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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..