If someone wandered into Roseland Ballroom on the night of the Buddy Holly Rock & Roller Dance Party without knowing what this concert was all about, the confused soul might have had trouble deciding who was being saluted. Sure, there […]
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The artistic burden of carrying a mythic, pioneering band’s legacy on one’s shoulders can be overwhelming. Or, as David Crosby once put it, “The Byrds — that’s some heavy shit, man.” At this celebratory show, Chicago native and ex-Byrds frontman […]
Billed as a Kitty Wells show, this was really more than that, with segments featuring the current version of the Tennessee Mountain Boys and her son Bobby Wright as well as Kitty and her husband Johnnie. Her band, some of […]
As anyone who’s heard Alex Chilton’s Live In London knows, the mercurial singer can be both brilliant and erratic within the same show. On this Saturday evening in front of 150 or so fans, however, the former Big Star frontman […]
Old-time music mostly returns to the present with a patina of dust, accumulated either inside the windowless conservatory or layering the worn 78s (and inevitably stilted performances) that preserve it. Too often it is forgotten that these songs were once […]
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 […]
Radio is, of course, a problem. For much of this quickly dissipating century, at least some of the important and ultimately lasting music of the day has been available, for free, to anyone within earshot of a receiver. And that […]
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 […]
I write and think about god rarely enough to be unsure whether even to capitalize the word or not. But it is not a subject one can avoid, living in Tennessee and writing about country music (whatever that is). Here […]
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 […]
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