It’s just perfect that the Jayhawks’ new album is called Back Roads and Abandoned Motels. As we travel back roads, we encounter not only the unadorned beauty of untouched scenes — which can lull us into peaceful exclamations about the […]
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Roy Orbison’s sons – Roy Jr., Wesley and Alex – have done much to preserve and expand their father’s legacy. They’ve overseen reissues of Roy Orbison’s MGM catalog and an expanded thirtieth anniversary version of the Black and White Night […]
Here’s hoping that Willie Nelson has a dozen more albums left in him. But he’ll have trouble equaling the richness and emotional depth he has achieved here, with God’s Problem Child (out April 28 on Legacy). The album’s cover recalls […]
Forget everything you know about Jessi Colter: widow of Waylon, mother of Shooter, “I’m Not Lisa.” Forget everything you know about Christian music—traditional hymns, southern gospel, spiritual sing-alongs, contemporary pop-rock, whatever. Now, think to yourself, What Would Patti Do? Patti […]
Session players necessarily take a back seat to the artists whose music they help create. A few, like Jerry Reed and Glen Campbell, gain their own stardom, and others, such as Motown’s Funk Brothers and the Muscle Shoals Swampers, gain […]
Someday, somebody with great taste, and no desire to be all things to all markets, is going to put together a Best Of Willie Nelson box. Because nobody’s taste is absolute, fans like me and you will question some of […]
These were Dolly Parton’s first masterpieces. Recorded over roughly four years, they projected the full force of her magnificently pure vocals and brilliantly observational songs. Unlike the bulk of early 1970s Nashville fare, her work addressed complex subjects directly, yet […]
Want dirty blues? This here’s the dirtiest blues. On the strength of one worn-out, unreleased 78, Lucille Bogan became infamous when Legacy released it on a compilation. (Us older folks already knew her from Maria Muldaur’s scorching version of Bogan’s […]
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