These days are truly the dogs days for Blue Mountain. The Oxford, Mississippi, band is currently touring in support of their second album, Dog Days, and husband-and-wife Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt are also raising their six-month-old part-chow, part-lab Willie. […]
Theyd been there for years, those gaudy silver spray-paint stars splashed across the northern and western walls of First Avenue/7th Street Entry, the legendary double-venue situated in the center of Minneapolis and at the heart of the Twin Cities music […]
Talking about middle-class white kids and how they first got into music, producer Jim Dickinson once said, “Everybody learned it from the yardman.” Well, not quite everybody. “My first experience with country music was actually watching ‘Hee Haw’ when I […]
It’s almost too easy to get Ronnie Mack’s hackle standing on end. This usually mild-mannered promoter of the Barndance, L.A.’s long-standing roots-rock showcase, gets all riled up by the mere mention of Nashville and its local arm, radio station KZLA. […]
When what you have studied leaves your mind entirely, and practice also disappears, then when you perform whatever art you are engaged in, you accomplish the techniques easily, without being concerned over what you have practiced. This is spontaneously conforming […]
They travel in a 1949 Flexible bus. Their stage attire is pure Hank Thompson, circa 1955. But to think of Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys as 1990’s resurgence of Sha-Na-Na-ism would be a profound mistake. “We don’t really think […]
Country Dick Montana, drummer and vocalist for the Beat Farmers, died November 8th, 1995, after collapsing onstage at the Longhorn Saloon in Whistler, British Columbia in front of a sold-out crowd. He was 40. The cause of death was a […]
To some, Columbus, Ohio, is best known for creating its own prickly brand of punk and garage rock. Nurtured by the bars and record stores that line High Street across from the sprawling campus of Ohio State, the Columbus “sound” […]
When I first read this book’s subtitle, I thought the author’s view might be a little slanted. When I finished the book, I realized he was only stating the facts. Cooper gives the reader the good, the bad and the […]
I’m laid up right now,” explains Rhett Miller, lead singer and guitarist for the Old 97’s. “I have a muscle spasm in my neck. There’s a muscle in your neck that’s 6 inches long, and mine spasmed and became 2 […]
