From left to right, the stage looked like this: Joe Eddy Hines, Alejandro Escovedo, Razz Russell, David Perales, John Convertino, Brian Standefer, Joey Burns, Victoria Williams, Mark Olson, Richard Buckner and Howe Gelb. Not your average 11-piece band. Much of […]
A couple years ago MTV announced it was going to give more exposure to the electronica scene. In step, the major labels acted accordingly; suddenly the pop music landscape was awash with artists like the Chemical Brothers, the bitch-smackin’ Prodigy […]
No person can ever fully comprehend another, nor can any history be truly complete. Yet with practice, guidance, and self-awareness, you can learn to talk with a patient and obtain the comprehensive, organized set of data that constitutes the traditional […]
“You can magnify beauty, take it apart, see how it got to be so damn pretty. You take a song and you look at it real close, and what happens? Well, first of all, you have to slow it down […]
The alternative-country movement, it’s safe to say, is largely music by and for white people. Suppose for a second that we stop trying to figure out what to call it, and distract ourselves by seeking to understand the social conditions […]
The drunk guy bellowing, “Junior Brown! Junior Brown!” before the music started obviously was a relatively new fan of the deep-voiced singer who invented the guit-steel. Brown’s longtime fans in these parts know him and refer to him by the […]
With the Fourth landing on a Saturday this year, Gabe’s augmented its traditional holiday “Firecracker 500” retro/garage/punk bash with a bonus Friday lead-in featuring the output of four songwriters whose diverse yet connected visions of roots-rock ‘n’ country clearly demonstrated […]
“My husband and ex-husband wrote this song together, which qualifies me to be a country singer,” Kelly Willis laughed before she broke into the second number on her set list, “Take It All Out On You”. The full house that […]
You have to have grown up in Oklahoma a champion of Woody Guthrie to really understand the significance of Billy Bragg’s July 14th birthday salute to Guthrie in the great Okie song-poet’s hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma — a place where […]
Precious Moments is the title of the Sadies’ debut album, and up to this point, precious moments are all the four busy members of the Toronto group have been able to devote to this band. It’s a situation guitarist-singer Dallas […]
