The Backsliders wear their influences with pride, though it’s clear they didn’t just pick those influences up last year by listening to a few Byrds and Hank Williams records. They grew up listening to the classics of all eras from […]
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Anyone who ever did hang time with the late Townes Van Zandt has tales to tell, and Michael Parrish is no exception. First time they met, at a mid-’80s Townes gig in New England, where Parrish was then the piano-playing […]
Louisville is best-known as a sports town. It’s the home of the Kentucky Derby, the renowned Louisville Slugger baseball bats are made there, the University of Louisville has a fine men’s basketball team, and it’s the birthplace of Muhammad Ali. […]
It started out simply enough: Frank Dean, who runs a guitar shop called Ballantine Guitar Company, decided to record a collection of songs he’d written for a CD. “Most of that disc was just three guys standing around a microphone,” […]
That name. Hard to forget, isn’t it? Like it or not, this Denton, Texas, quartet is sticking with it. They could have changed the name to accommodate a more mainstream acceptance when things started “happening” for them after they signed […]
In 1981 a friend and fellow lover of all things strange and Texan turned me on to a bizarre and basically indescribable single called “Paralysed” by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, a.k.a. Norman Odam. Monica put this single on the turntable, […]
White Hassle is what some folks call White Castle, the northern cousin of the southern Krystal — both home of the miniature square oniony burgers favored by those too young for heartburn after a night of drinking and spending all […]
The second novel from Richard Currey, by day a New Mexico physician, traces the life of a West Virginia banjo player named Sapper Reeves, his trio, and the second trio his wife and son complete, from 19471997. Currey has fashioned […]
Not far from Grand Detour, Illinois — where the Rock River winds in, yes, a grand detour near the first workshop of John Deere — is the small town of Dixon (pop. 15,144), the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan. Dixon […]
When asked what he’d be doing if he weren’t playing music, Larry Myer replies quite simply, “I’d be dead.” The laugh in his voice can’t hide the seriousness of that statement, for it is exactly that dedication which helps his […]
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