It’s widely speculated Full Circle will be the last release of Loretta Lynn’s groundbreaking career in country music; from the wistful “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?,” to the album’s only duet, the bittersweet “When They Lay Me Down” (with Willie Nelson, […]
It’s widely speculated Full Circle will be the last release of Loretta Lynn’s groundbreaking career in country music; from the wistful “Who’s Gonna Miss Me?,” to the album’s only duet, the bittersweet “When They Lay Me Down” (with Willie Nelson, […]
It’s tempting to see Them primarily as a launching pad for Van Morrison, and though anyone who saw them live or heard these early singles would quickly zero in on Morrison, the band’s tight, tough sound was as essential to […]
On page 13 of the booklet included in the new 6-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12, Bob Dylan 1965-1966, The Cutting Edge Deluxe Edition, there’s a photograph taken in mid-June, 1965, at Columbia Recording Studio A in New York City, […]
In 1979, George Jones was better known among non-country fans than at any time in his, at that point, quarter-century career. But not for his singing. Unlike chart contemporaries Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard and Ray Price, he’d never […]
Nothing so ambitious as a 109-track history of recorded bluegrass can possibly hope to please everybody. Inevitably fans and historians have favorites and prejudices, and will voice them free of the vicissitudes of licensing and lawyers. Still, veteran reissue producer […]
For the better part of eight years, beginning in 1966, Bob Dylan stopped touring. When he returned to the stage in January 1974, backed by his ’66 tourmates the Band, America’s rock concert machine, built during those “lost” years, had […]
“Hello, I’m Pure Charisma.” That might as well have been Johnny Cash’s self-introduction from 1959 to ’67, when these new reissues first appeared. One of 1958’s hotter acts, with hits extending from “I Walk The Line” through “Ballad Of A […]
If it’s true that Bill Monroe invented bluegrass, it’s equally true that it wouldn’t have happened the way it did without guitarist/lead singer Lester Flatt and banjo player/baritone singer Earl Scruggs. As members of Monroe’s 1946-48 Blue Grass Boys, they […]
Charlie Rich was always such a humble singer. He never showed off or drew attention to himself at the expense of the song. He caressed his lyrics; he worked his one-of-a-kind voice over the words so carefully, the better to […]
Ralph and Carter Stanley didn’t invent bluegrass — that bit of history belongs to Bill Monroe — but these brothers from McClure, Virginia, expanded and enlivened the form, and in the process became one of the music’s strongest forces. With […]
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