Several years back, Steve Dawson joined the swollen ranks of songwriters in Nashville under contract to pen songs — hit songs, mister — for established country singers. Having blended styles in Stump the Host, a twangy Chicago band that built […]
There’s somethin’ in a Sunday Makes a body feel alone — “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, Kris Kristofferson The calendar may portray it as the beginning of the week, but in reality, we all know Sunday is the end of the […]
“Well, it’s not like I’ve got the last couple of fragments. It’s not like I’ve got the last half-dozen tunes. There’s so much stuff here, I mean, I could make a record and then if that’s no good then you […]
It’s the eve of a stormy Memorial Day weekend, high in the Clinch Mountains of Southwestern Virginia. Jimmy Martin’s enormous green tour bus has just barged its way up the winding road to Ralph Stanley’s Hills of Home park, a […]
It never fails to amaze how a series of chance happenings can hold sway over the development of an artist’s craft — in this particular case, how the circuitous route between London and Nashville was shortened by a succession of […]
LET’S MAKE A DEAL: The Bottle Rockets have been released from their contract with Atlantic. An Atlantic spokesperson suggested there were plans to re-release last summer’s 24 Hours A Day on another label, but Brian Henneman, in Nashville recently for […]
God isn’t real. Or so Robbie Fulks sang to me and around 50 other folks on a brisk Sunday night last November. Fair enough — but then how was it I was sitting five feet away from Fulks in someone’s […]
1 Bob Dylan, Time Out Of Mind (Columbia) 2 Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castles (Righteous Babe) 3 Steve Earle, El Corazon (E-Squared/Warner Bros.) 4 Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac (Outpost) 5 Cheri Knight, The Northeast Kingdom (E-Squared) 6 Alejandro Escovedo, More Miles […]
“The whole world has got to where if you told ’em, ‘I’ve got an ant, just a regular little ant that crawls on the ground, that can eat a thousand-pound roll of hay, and you can see him do that […]
I met John Krajicek purely by chance at a 10,000 Maniacs/Balancing Act show in Dallas eleven years ago. He was a corporate tax accountant who didn’t really belong in such a job; I was a college student with aspirations of […]
