He’s not the pompadoured wild man with rockabilly hiccups who fronted the Tuff Darts in the late ’70s. This Robert Gordon prefers to chronicle music, not perform it. Gordon’s first book was 1995’s It Came From Memphis. He won a […]
He’s not the pompadoured wild man with rockabilly hiccups who fronted the Tuff Darts in the late ’70s. This Robert Gordon prefers to chronicle music, not perform it. Gordon’s first book was 1995’s It Came From Memphis. He won a […]
Mama Possum has had a buncha babies, and they’re all worrisome. But for those of us just listening in, the only thing worrisome about this ten-piece Fat Possum brood is which treasure to dive into first. R.L. Burnside, Reverend Gary […]
From the blistering opener, the original “Shoot Out the Lights,” it’s clear that Jimbo Mathus will be laying on hands that have been sancitifed by the spirits of all manner of Southern music. With the prodding of Bronson Tew’s drums […]
Falsetto singing can be lovely and all, but the practice has definitely reached its saturation point among male vocalists. It’s gotten to where a man simply sounding like a man over the course of an entire album seems downright revelatory, […]
If you’re one of those people convinced that, with the exceptions of Jim Carrey and Mike Myers, Canadians aren’t much fun, it’s understandable. Where else but the land of block heaters and hockey-mulleted hosers would an unapologetic introvert such as […]
Arkansas is one of the last imaginary places in our monoculture, for few of us — save the unlucky supplicant visiting Bentonville — have much reason actually to visit there. Jim Mize, a fiftysomething Farm Bureau claims agent, lives in […]
Busting entirely out of the intimate space he created on 2003’s Weather Systems, Andrew Bird inhabits an emotional range and resonance on his new album that we’ve only glimpsed elsewhere in his catalog. With Armchair Apocrypha (think apocalypse from the […]
In these cynical times, with authenticity an ever-dwindling commodity, the likes of an aging yet untapped talent such as Junior Kimbrough happen about once in a lifetime. An under-recorded Mississippi juke-joint troubadour with hard-bitten songs and a modal guitar style […]
The Black Keys are hardly the first white boys to get a bad case of the blues. But whether you’re talking Texas guitar wizard Steve Ray Vaughan, NYC hipster Jon Spencer, or newly minted millionaire Jack White, few white bluesmen […]
In 1929, Mississippi’s Joe Callicott made a trip to Memphis with his friend Garfield Akers to record for Vocalion. Callicott’s solo recordings never saw the light of day; only “Cottonfield Blues (Parts 1 And 2)”, with Callicott backing Akers, was […]
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