The project: a greatest-hits package for a band that never existed except in the script of a Rob Zombie horror movie. The parameters: Make it funny, make it sound like ’70s country, make it commercial. After a Jim Beam-inspired songwriting […]
The project: a greatest-hits package for a band that never existed except in the script of a Rob Zombie horror movie. The parameters: Make it funny, make it sound like ’70s country, make it commercial. After a Jim Beam-inspired songwriting […]
Release of this glance at the formative years of Waylon Jennings’ career was slated well before anyone knew the disc would arrive just after the sad news of his passing. The timing only makes hearing these sides, recorded for a […]
Every once in a while the propensity to repackage an artist’s career in two neat discs works to the listener’s advantage, but rarely. John Hiatt has long been a gifted songwriter and has cut a handful of brilliant albums, notably […]
Virtuous patience is sometimes rewarded. It’s taken almost three years for this debut from North Carolina’s Malcolm Holcombe to be released, so it seems fitting that it took a few trips through the record for everything to click. With the […]
In 1957, Nashville-based Excello Records released a doo-wop record called “Little Darlin’” by five-member vocal group the Gladiolas. Written by the group’s soon-to-be semi-famous leader, Maurice “Stay” Williams, “Little Darlin’” was built around a cacophonous, faintly Latin rhythm that sounds […]
Back in his heyday Dan Hicks made perfect soundtrack music for coming down off acid trips — a musical Visine for the third eye. It was mellow enough to soothe frayed nerves, but warped enough to make you believe Dan […]
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