Matt Marble discusses Riley Shepard's career and music history in Stacya Silverman's blog.

We used to live right by The Hollywood's Largest Toyshop. The entire time we lived in Hollywood, we didn't have a car. We walked everywhere.

Charles Seeger, not so impressed with Riley’s work.

My father said that part of his encyclopedia of folk music was burned in a fire, and that he'd have to start all over. Was it true?

Stolen songs and strange behavior, Riley Shepard fits right in.

Another half-brother.

Photo by Thomas Schworer I grew up in a cloud of my father’s cigar smoke, listening to the tapping sounds from his Corona typewriter, the loud zipping from the return carriage. He smoked cigars constantly, except when he slept, or studied at the public library, Sante Fe High Grade, which came fifty cigars in a box with a lid. He kept extra cigars, the fat kind, overflowing in his shirt pocket with his lighter and several pens. He could go days without regular sleep, with no a

Today is Sunday, November 15, 2020. The 45th president of the United States still refuses to concede the election to President-elect Joe...

When I saw this drawing in my late father's box of personal mementos, I was stunned. How on earth did Riley get his wife to pose for this?

I have no idea if he and Burgess Meredith and Gary Romero made a dime off this album. Or The Quartones, for that matter.