First of all, this is not a history lesson on Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. For that and many other wonderful things, check out the Buck Owens box set on Rhino Records. What follows is merely an attempt to spread […]
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Imagine a backwoods bastardization of the Cramps. The hick-rock thing seems to be big these days, from Jon Spencer’s semi-citified bluesy howl to the trailer-trash frat-rock of Southern Culture on the Skids. The Flat Duo Jets have been honing their […]
Bursting out of Waukesha, WI in 1986 on the heels of the T Bone Burnett-produced Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, the BoDeans sounded like a trap door out of new-wave hell, back into a no-frills nirvana where acoustic […]
If you had a photographic memory, a video camera and an audio recorder, Unshaven would be your own private Shaver bootleg. (Yes, sounds can create vivid pictures.) You’d play it often to recapture that rip-roarin’ evening of honky tonk. Like […]
“A Jimmie Rodgers blue yodel with slackin’ ramblings” is how Jason Eklund describes his song “Motivation Blues” in the liner notes of his second album, and it’s an apt description for his entire second album. Eklund’s as close to a […]
Loser’s Paradise ain’t groundbreaking, ain’t gonna be heard on country radio and might not even be heard outside of one’s own CD player, but I’ll be damned if I don’t go back to it time and time again. There’s something […]
The first time I heard Kim Richey’s voice, she was a backing vocalist on Radney Foster’s 1992 solo album Del Rio, TX 1959. It jumped out and stuck with me from the first listen. Considering that “backing vocalist” is a […]
Too many people with good ears have said too much good about Jim Lauderdale for this, his second major label offering, to be altogether representative of his talent. Still, since he shares production credit with Dusty Wakeman, it’s hard to […]
Jimmy LaFave’s success as an artist clearly rises and falls on the strength of his voice. A powerful, slightly grainy instrument, it’s capable of driving home heartfelt emotions forcefully but also can overflow into histrionic melodrama when LaFave fails to […]
Stacy Dean Campbell’s 1992 debut Lonesome Wins Again was a refreshing attempt to storm the country charts. With a pure voice steeped in the old honky-tonk sound and original songs crafted with a delightful rockabilly feel — not to mention […]
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