Hey, this is Lonesome Bob, the phone message began, answering a troubling question: How do you address the man? Just Bob seemed a little too familiar and just Lonesome seemed, well, a little too weird. I wore a cowboy hat […]
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It’s Saturday, half past noon, and Mary Lou Lord is indignant. OK, maybe “indignant” is too strong a word, but nonetheless she’s pretty fired up about a certain question that keeps coming her way. The question, which has lots of […]
Things seem to move quickly around the Meat Purveyors. They had been together only six months or so when they struck up a friendship with Jon Langford of the Waco Brothers, which led to Bloodshot Records agreeing to put out […]
Sitting down with an artist to listen to their new record is a situation akin to meeting a couple’s new baby: You just pray the tyke doesn’t look like Strother Martin or, in this musical equivalent, sound like Strother Martin. […]
1 Steve Earle, El Corazon (E-Squared) 2 Bob Dylan, Time Out Of Mind (Columbia) 3 Old & In The Way, Breakdown (Acoustic Disc) 4 Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac (Outpost) 5 Robbie Fulks, South Mouth (Bloodshot) 6 Greg Brown, Slant 6 Mind […]
“When I start writing,” allows Peter Case, “it’s not like I have something that I really want to say. It’s more like there are a million things to say. And I’m just trying to find my way into the world […]
To ask Ramblin’ Jack Elliott a question is to tug at a snag in a sweater, only to see the yarn unfurl of its own volition, dropping in aimless loops, curling and snaking itself into a variegated fable. Every answer […]
Owen Bradley, Carl Perkins, Cliffie Stone — the recent deaths of these country music giants raise the obvious but vexing question: Who’s gonna fill their shoes? More than just major figures, each of these men stamped their character and vision […]
Owen Bradley, Carl Perkins, Cliffie Stone — the recent deaths of these country music giants raise the obvious but vexing question: Who’s gonna fill their shoes? More than just major figures, each of these men stamped their character and vision […]
“I just tell people what instruments we use,” Mike Mogis says when asked how he responds to those who want to know what kind of music Lullaby For The Working Class plays. “We have banjo, trumpet, chimes, steel guitar, acoustic […]
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