Chris Mills is emotionally precocious, but he’d deny it. He thinks everyone observes in fine detail the filaments spun, woven and frayed between two people, and he believes everyone’s rough edges are worn raw in getting by. So when he […]
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Guided by sisters Amy and Deborah Boone, the Damnations uncover bits and pieces of Americana, tucked away and seldomly visited. They evoke the spirit of country music’s past, then add influences ranging from Stax recordings to Tom Waits, giving the […]
Before leaving on Freakwater’s last, ill-fated tour, singer Janet Beveridge Bean went to a new age healer, who promised Bean she would cleanse her aura. “She told me she would open my third eye,” Bean remembers. “I’ll tell you, from […]
Nigger, bitch, queer…hayseed? Okay, maybe “hayseed” doesn’t belong with such hateful epithets. But at the very least, the term betrays a cultural elitism, prevalent among city dwellers, that reduces rural folk to Bible-thumbing Pentecostals or extras from the movie Deliverance. […]
You can’t rush greatness. After 11 years of playing together, the Lonesome Brothers finally got around to recording an album. Their self-titled debut on Tar Hut Records is a big ol’ slab of classic rock, pop and country, all rolled […]
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