Strumming, banging on all manner of stuff — from organ keys to lacquer-thinner cans — blowing horns, and speak-singing colorful sound/word picture stories and moments in time, Lambchop is an informal Nashville ensemble of ten or so players. Their combination […]
The map of West Texas is dotted with towns bearing names such as Plainview, Levelland and Grassland. In this case, each word is worth a thousand pictures. Marking the southern boundary of the Great Plains, West Texas is big, and […]
The story of George Glenn Jones and his voice is the story of country music. In the rough Big Thicket of 1930s and ’40s East Texas, Jones grew up idolizing the country’s first national success stories — Roy Acuff, Bill […]
If you’re reading this magazine, you almost certainly own at least one album Brian Paulson has produced. He’s been pretty hard to avoid in ’90s alternative country circles, and the genre is unimaginable without such Paulson-produced landmarks as Uncle Tupelo’s […]
The early 1970s was one of the most exciting eras in country music. The Nashville Sound was on the wane, thanks in part to singers such as Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Bare and Tom T. Hall. But as individualistic […]
R.S. Field represents one of the great hopes for Nashville. He is a maverick producer/performer/songwriter who is not afraid or ashamed to integrate Nashville’s past sounds with its present. In an era where most major-label country is either overproduced ballads […]
“Ladies-n-gennelmen, you heard it right here, ladies-n-gennelmen…” When we first heard the effusive, rambling introduction of the Carpetbaggers that the Minneapolis trio snuck onto their latest release Sin Now … Pray Later, we knew we had to find out where […]
