Like Dock Boggs, Townes Van Zandt was obsessed with death. Both men were shadowed by their own mortality, obsessing over it and collapsing under it time and again in song. Both men ran from death in their early years, but […]
Like Dock Boggs, Townes Van Zandt was obsessed with death. Both men were shadowed by their own mortality, obsessing over it and collapsing under it time and again in song. Both men ran from death in their early years, but […]
Since his last solo album, 1995’s Labor Of Love, Radney Foster has had a tumultuous personal life, with the lows of a divorce and child-custody court battle followed by the highs of remarriage and imminent fatherhood. It’s no surprise, then, […]
Abra Moores acclaimed 1995 album Sing may have been ahead of the wave. Joan Osborne hadnt made a market for her voice, west-Brit techno-ballad innovators had not fully hippified new age digitality, and Americana radio had yet to break the […]
It was a telling statement that I recently saw attributed to Robert Earl Keen, the one in which he mentioned he “was kind of burned out on being the ‘yuck, yuck, pluck, pluck’ guy.” Now, Keen has always been much […]
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