In this era of celebrity, Dolly Parton could be one if she never sang a note. A sign in her Dollywood museum exhorts, “You’re only as big as your biggest dream,” and Parton has always dreamed of being somewhat larger […]
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Driving across Arizona at night with the thumping, twanging sound of Flathead in your stereo, it’s easy to imagine your Ford Escort or Mitsubishi Mirage magically transforming into some legendary 18-wheeler — the Phantom 309, the Giddyup Go — tearing […]
Right now, at the beginning of what seems like an excellent adventure, or at least a really good time, Gomez love everything. They’re in love with the novelty of free trips to America, of getting paid to do what they […]
Pedal steel guitarist Joe Goldmark makes his instrumental recordings the same way the pop singers of yesteryear did: by looking for catchy songs. On his new HMG/HighTone album All Hat — No Cattle, the San Francisco record store mogul mines […]
Devising a new beginning amid failure or catastrophe is such a recurrent aspect of the human condition that it’s birthed thousands of axioms and cliches. After all, valor can come from defeat, and a fair measure of a person’s character […]
[Editor’s note: Writer and musician Roxy Gordon published a monthly newspaper called Picking Up The Tempo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1970s that covered outlaw-country music. Nowadays he lives in the small West Texas town of Talpa and writes […]
A round trip, indeed — not to mention rather long and a little bit strange. Dale Duncan — self-proclaimed “art director” of the collective known as Map Of Wyoming, whose self-released debut CD is titled Round Trip — truly has […]
Meredith Miller feels as if she is standing at a crossroads. Her three albums have established her as an acclaimed artist regionally; last year, she was named Best Female Vocalist at the Dallas Observer Music Awards. She and her band […]
No matter the circumstance, Michael Hurley is a quintessential practitioner of the less-is-more dictum. As a writer of riveting and timeless songs, his phrases are short and potent, in service to verses at once elegantly concise and mysteriously layered. In […]
“If you really want to do this right,” says Kevin Kerby, “first you really have to make a lot of money, and then you can do whatever you want. I just cut out the money part.” Mostly what Kerby wants […]
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