With a mischievous half-smile, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner cut right to the point: “Why the long faces?” Why indeed. The capacity crowd on this Friday night was there to mourn the passing of Lucy’s Record Shop, the all-ages venue that for […]
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Who was that dapper fellow in the black cotton turtleneck and closely cropped hair walking onstage with John Doe and strapping on a guitar? Billy Zoom (!), looking fit and not a day older than the last time he performed […]
The Brewery is the perfect setting for this, the third year of a “Southern Plunge Into Trailer Trash Leisure & Entertainment,” with the required amount of dark interior spaces, cramped stage and odd characters such as the weekend’s quasi-host, pro […]
“If you want to hear it pretty, go listen to our albums.” Thus spoke Ryan Adams at the end of a Whiskeytown concert that left some in the crowd disappointed. For those of us who like our country-rock with the […]
As dramatic spectacles go, it would be hard to top the opening moments of Steve Earle’s Toronto stop on the El Corazon tour. At 9 p.m. EST, U.S. President Bill Clinton was before Congress, delivering a State Of The Union […]
Despite a near-death experience, 1997 was a good year for Bob Dylan: a commercially successful, critically acclaimed album of new material, a Kennedy Center Honor, a papal gig. But perhaps the most revealing turn was his decision to become, for […]
As evidenced by this entertaining but sparsely attended show, Slaid Cleaves is a songwriter’s songwriter. For this solo acoustic gig, the Maine native interspersed covers and older material with several songs from his recent Philo/Rounder disc No Angel Knows. Cleaves […]
It takes all of two minutes for Gerald Collier to set the mood of his self-titled Revolution debut. In perfect step with the rise-crescendo-and-fall construction that gives “Dark Days” both its barbed hook and its grand sweep, he sings: “You […]
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 […]
Peter thought maybe I should write a few words about Alejandro Escovedo since he’d already assembled, oh, about 8,000 of ’em for this issue’s cover story. And he left out a bunch. All of which makes my feeble efforts here […]
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