“I can tell this isn’t gonna be a live album, friends,” rued Mickey Newbury, referring to the rash of tuning, intonation, and memory problems that beset him at this show. “I can’t get through one damn song without hitting a […]
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If Bob Dylan had headed south to Appalachia when he fled Minnesota, rather than east to Greenwich Village, he might have ended up sounding something like Mike Coykendall, singer and songwriter of the Old Joe Clarks. On the band’s debut […]
Usually, detailing a band’s pedigree gives you a rough idea of what the group might sound like. But sometimes, all it does is confuse the issue. Consider the Tonebenders, who have personnel links to many of the A-list bands from […]
And while we spoke of many things, Fools and kings, This he said to me: The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return. — “Nature Boy”, Victoria Williams The Original Harmony Ridge Creek […]
To begin with, the end, or pretty much so: A man named Sherman Cooper. Abandoned heir to a decaying Southern elite, he now tends the 40 square miles of the Mississippi Delta his family once owned, before they sold it […]
It’s an irony of American tradition that many who heeded Horatio Alger’s call to “Go west, young man” immediately set about striving to get the next generation through college and into big-city jobs. The timing was just about right. According […]
At first, That’s All Right, Elvis is presented to us as simply the story of Scotty Moore’s life. But, not unexpectedly, the Elvis-less chapters of Moore’s book (especially the seemingly endless details of Moore’s four years in the Navy) are […]
Also passing away in November, on the 15th, was Rainer Ptacek, the renowned steel guitarist from Tucson, Arizona, who was the subject of two recent tribute albums designed to raise funds to combat a brain tumor that was first diagnosed […]
The Del McCoury Band is often cited as a shining example of all that’s right in the world of bluegrass today, and after this long, late-afternoon show, it’s easy to understand why. The venue, Bill’s Music Shop, is hallowed ground […]
As any aficionado of Americana can tell you, St. Louis was the largest city between Chicago and Los Angeles along historic Route 66. It is fitting, then, that trivia about the “Main Street of America” would provide inspiration for the […]
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