A funny thing happened on the way to alt-country for 19 Wheels. Formed as a rootsy outfit in 1994, they’ve got the trucker name, a single (“13 Seconds to Burn”) about wantin’ to bust out of prison, and a hellishly […]
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The spirit of the late Eddy Merle Watson has always pervaded the Wilkesboro, N.C., music festival named and held in his honor, and this spring’s 10th anniversary celebration was certainly no exception. Appropriately enough, the shade of another too-soon-departed musician, […]
Rural Oregon, off Highway 99: With all due respect and apologies to pater and mater Villanueva, one wonders if Buck Owens ever had a milk route that would have taken him through these parts ’round about the Summer of Love. […]
And the talk of those that wonder And the talk of those that curse Let ’em have their thrill, they’ll need it We’ll be no more for the worse –“Melinda”, James McMurtry James McMurtry is terse to the point of […]
You could see it in his eyes. “Hey, hop in the van, let’s have a shot,” Ryan Adams beckoned, and who was I to argue with that Peter Pan gleam and Pied Piper smile. It was Saturday night of the […]
In the keen clarity of night, just before descending into dream’s solace — a craving that can no longer be admitted into the busy hours of daylight — there is always time enough to suspect that one has not fulfilled […]
English rocker Ronnie Lane, bassist for classic ’60s and ’70s bands the Small Faces and the Faces and also known for his recordings with Slim Chance and The Who’s Pete Townshend, died June 4 in a Colorado hospital at the […]
This biography of one of country music’s enduring treasures succeeds on several levels — as a quintessentially American tale of restlessness and ambition, a primer on the birth of the Bakersfield country sound, and, last but decidedly not least, such […]
For a long time, friends have been saying I should hear Joy Lynn White, a spunky young, underappreciated country diva from Arkansas. I finally did. For an even longer time they’ve been saying I should read High Fidelity, Nick Hornby’s […]
It happens more or less without warning or fanfare two minutes into the second track of Whiskeytown’s Strangers Almanac album. An old familiar voice glides in and nudges an already spectacular song to an even higher level. “So if the […]
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