[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 […]
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 […]
The inherent lag time involved in magazine deadlines is an ever-present little annoyance, often making moot any concerns about timeliness and frequently requiring rush-jobs on advance deliveries of new releases. Our answer, in part, is to present pieces that are […]
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 […]
Gerald Duncan and his band the Accelerators have been AWOL for a healthy chunk of the ’90s. “I needed to survive, and continuing that [the music] was not conducive to survival,” is how the 46-year-old Duncan explains it via a […]
In the land where Lake Wobegon meets the Mall of America, Accident Clearinghouse seems perfectly indigenous. Hailing from a prefab suburb north of the Twin Cities, the group is comprised of six twentysomethings fronted by Quillan Roe, an art-school grad […]
It all began when I was browsing through the atlas one day a few years back, looking for places that seemed interesting and far-removed from the beaten path. Or maybe I was listening to Joe Henry’s song “Sault Ste. Marie” […]
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 […]
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 […]
This Saturday night triple bill was an evening of men with songs in their hearts, each one with their own style, yet each with a commanding stage presence. Long associated with the Austin scene and one of its very best […]
