Charles R. Cross

If you ever wanted to see me prattle on for 13 odd minutes about the first records I bought as a teenager, well, on the Northern Transmissions Youtube page, here's your chance. Charles Brownstein (no relation to Carrie), does a great job with all his interviews, though mine might have been hampered by me taking the ask seriously and showing off the "actual" first records I purchased (as a kid in the seventies in Pullman, I couldn't even find an import or bootleg — all that changed when I hit Seattle).

Charles R. Cross l Records In My Life. In this episode Charles Brownstein - Records in My Life host, sits down with prolific pacific Northwest author Charles R. Cross (Kurt Cobain, Led Zeppelin, ...

If you ever wanted to read 3K words from me on how the pre-Amazon Seattle (and the world) was better, how Rite Aid is trying to ruin Bartell's, and what drugstore Kurt Cobain slept over, well, here's your chance. I still love Bartell's, but I love much of the old analog world of Seattle.

For Seattle, Bartell’s has always been more than a drugstore As another location of the century-old pharmacy chain shutters, Peter Nordstrom, John Keister and others reflect on what it means for the city.