Paula Balzer at Sarah Lazin books, Sylvie's fab agent and proud owner and wearer of a Wonder Woman outfit.

Steven Saporta at Invasion Group: the finest music-related management company there is.



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Research and content: Sylvie Simmons



01. Johnny Cash's house, Hendersonville, TN 2003, while doing interviews for Unearthed. What a man.
Photo credit: JC's daughter.

02. Smile! Brian Wilson's house in the Hollywood Hills, 2004.
Photo credit: Brian's wife Melinda.

03. In the back of a bus in Austin, TX with Roky Erickson, 2005.
Photo credit: Vanessa Forbes Rahmy.

04. Showing Tom Waits my impersonation of Yoda doing coke, Petaluma, CA, 2004.
Photo credit: Eva Vermandel.

05. At Jimmy Martin's house in Nashville, 2004. He'd just introduced me to his goat.
Photo credit: Someone who was visiting Jimmy.

06. Long before I perfected the Yoda-coke impersonation, I was practicing looking cool.
Photo credit: Chris Walter.

07. MOJO, the world's greatest music magazine and some of its finest people.
Photo credit: Someone more sober than we were.

08. Los Angeles, early '80s. Motley, WASP and Ratt come to my rescue during the gas crisis.
Photo credit: Chris Walter.

09. South by South West, 2003. The fab T-shirt came from a great indie arts mag in London called Gone To Texas, for whom I wrote a short story about a man I met in Austin with weird toes.
Photo credit: Daniel Coston.

10. Cowboy hat pic on bio page.
Photo credit: Neil Adams.