Knoxville, Tennessee, band the V-Roys, which has released two albums on E-Squared Records in the mid-late ’90s, is calling it quits, drummer Jeff Bills recently confirmed in a post to an internet mailing list. As a parting shot, the group […]
We are waiting. The light…cuts through the darkened hall, twists, turns…searching for something. It swoops to the rear door, finds its spot. Into the light slides the 13-years-absent Mr. Waits, entourage behind him, pushing up the aisle now, toward the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the great joys provided by this here magazine is being able to routinely “discover” killer regional musicians who, for any number of reasons, have managed to avoid wider exposure. Surely one such “buried treasure” is Joe Price A […]
1 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph) 2 Old 97’s, Fight Songs (Elektra) 3 Wilco, Summer Teeth (Reprise) 4 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 5 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared) 6 Tom […]
Dowling Press has reissued David Goodman’s Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide & Directory. (It makes a kind of series with the No Depression anthology published by Dowling, so, yes, there’s a conflict of interest here.) Goodman has updated […]
Gram Parsons: Under his spell again I had just finished belting out the final verses of “That’s All It Took”, singing along with Gram and Emmylou while cleaning house on a Sunday morning, when I paused to rip open the […]
