Andrew Combs took the music world by storm nearly one year ago when his debut album Worried Man rained down on record stores, radio stations, and concert venues across the globe. American Songwriter Magazine thought highly enough of it to name it the 26th best album of 2012, one of the few debut albums to […]
Last week, legendary songwriter and artist Guy Clark released his first studio album in four years. The album features eleven new tracks, ten of which were written by Clark along with a group of Nashville A-Listers, including Rodney Crowell, Shawn Camp and Jedd Hughes. Also included is a beautiful rendition of Lyle Lovett’s “Waltzing Fool”. […]
The Blackwing Experience is just around the corner. You may be getting tired of the hype, but we know many of you are just as excited as we are, so here are 10 reasons to get even more excited for the Blackwing Experience. 10. Meet Simpsons animator Stephen Reis Stephen is the lead animator and […]
Matt Mongomery uses Blackwing pencils to create. And like great creators, he has taken his latest grand idea from his head, put in onto paper, and now he’s ready to bring it to life. Matt is trying to bring together 25 of the most talented musicians in the San Francisco bay area to capture a […]
Test Your Pencil Knowledge Every day through March 15th, we’ll ask a trivia question about pencils. And each day we’ll give a pack of Kitaboshi highlighter pencils and hardbound notebook to someone who answers correctly. At the end of the contest, one grand prize winner will get a full gross (144) Golden Bear premium testing […]
The 15 Best Baseball Songs Ever Written The World Series is underway and while pundits across the globe examine Tony LaRussa’s bullpen management or Nelson Cruz’s ability to hit a fastball from Arlington to El Paso, I’m going to focus on baseball’s more artful expressions. Music is perhaps the strongest branch in baseball’s pop culture […]
The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams When country music legend Hank Williams died in the backseat of a cadillac somewhere between Knoxville, Tennesse and Oak Hill, West Virginia on New Year’s Day 1953, police found alongside him an empty bottle of bourbon, a pencil, and a notebook filled with unfinished song lyrics. Now, those lyrics […]
How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan Often, the hardest part about creative expression is trying to get started. It’s a challenge everyone faces at one time or another, including the great Bob Dylan. While Dylan is known first and foremost as one of America’s most influential musicians., he is also a highly accomplished sketch artist. His […]
75 Years of Kris Kristofferson Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An All-American athlete, a fighter pilot and a Rhodes Scholar walk into a bar. His name was Kris Kristofferson. 75 years ago, on June 22, 1936, Kristofferson was born a star. It was a role he’d eventually play out in film, and in […]
