Well I came down to Nashville in 1993 ‘Cause my friend Jimmy said Nashville Had money growin’ right on the trees So I thought I’d go pick some And I don’t mean musicalese Now it’s three years later And I’m […]
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From a heap of tapes scattered across the passenger seat of the car one spring evening, an advance tape of the Honeydogs’ new album, Seen A Ghost, finally found its way into the tape deck during a short drive to […]
Two years ago, “The Messenger” appeared at the end of a tape a friend made for me, sounding with a shock of recognition, knocking me out of some cross-state driving daydream and into a world that was fierce, visionary, and […]
Kevin Gordon couldn’t be more at home with his musical roots. The West Monroe, Louisiana, native inhabits the swamp blues, honky-tonk and rockabilly he heard growing up in the ’60s with the unassuming ease of a performer twice his age. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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