With the show just over 50 minutes old, scattered grumbles were heard when Vic Chesnutt announced, “we have one or two more.” Well, it did turn out to be four more, and in hindsight, this Detroit audience can count themselves […]
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Listen to Ralph Stanley talking about his granddaughter: The other day when I walked in the door, she…said, Papaw, if you ever die, I want to lie right down with you. Stuff like that, makes you feel good and bad, […]
At day’s end, when the Bedrock whistle blows in downtown St. Paul, office workers draw the blinds and begin their daily exodus from the city. When the dust has settled, what remains has been described by many as a modern […]
Nashville’s Working Stiff Jamboree has been attracting poets, songwriters and disaffiliated left-wingers to Springwater, a local bar, for over a decade now. It’s a resolutely democratic affair; the microphone in the back room of the bar is open to anyone […]
I met Tom Russell and his longtime guitar accompanist Andrew Hardin in 1981 in a cellar bar in Oslo, Norway. To my astonishment, they did a cover of a Gram Parsons song (at the time I thought I was the […]
Tom Russell was packing up and leaving New York City for El Paso, the desert city on the border of Texas and Mexico, when we spoke. “That idea that I had to live in a hip marketplace — New York, […]
If you grew up in Texas, chances are your family took a trip to San Antonio to visit that shrine to Texas Independence, the Alamo. For many, the next stop was the Buckhorn Hall of Horns, home to the world’s […]
Every musician has a silly Euro-journo story. If Melody Maker’s “Pepe LePunk” parody is to be believed, these anecdotes require two simple elements: a particularly annoying, irrelevant, stupid or wrongheaded question, plus a bemusedly haughty French, German or Danish accent. […]
The Western Steakhouse and Lounge oozes with greasy atmosphere. T. Tommy and Lil Thomsen have run the place for eons. Elvis used to frequent the premises; his favorite booth is now a shrine. The wait staff is very friendly and […]
It struck me right outside of Waco, Texas, that world-famous American center for the furthering of religious understanding and human compassion. On my way down Interstate 35 in the early morning hours bound for Austin and the annual cacophony of […]
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