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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Evan Johns received the kind of homecoming normally reserved for astronauts, Super Bowl champions and Bob Dole. A teenage Virginia rabble rouser who cut his teeth in the D.C. bar scene under the tutelage of the late Danny Gatton, Johns […]
An unusually structured show at an unusual venue — the tiny Noe Valley Ministry — this concert found Jimmie Dale Gilmore balancing the intimate with the carnivalesque. The songs were stripped bare in the first set, with just enough music […]
The poster always catches my attention — Mary Cutrufello with her head back, one arm on the guitar neck, the other behind her and she’s leaning waaaaay back. I’ve often pondered whether it was a staged photo or if the […]
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 […]
A wry smile crept almost imperceptibly across his face as the casually imposing figure stood onstage — head bowed, his acoustic guitar poised for a solo performance. Over a room crowded with fans of headliner Guy Clark, the club’s announcer […]
The last song on Buttercup’s first album, Gold, is a suitable microcosm for what the band seems is about. “That Shirt” backs you into the corner of the ring and just socks you one with a hook that’ll knock you […]
“I didn’t know what country was until I got my heart broken.” Jesse Dayton is explaining the unambiguously traditional country, but decidedly not retro, nature of his new CD on Justice. Track after track of Hey Nashvegas, due out August […]
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