People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. — James Baldwin George Jones was sure he’d finally found it. After […]
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It’s 1991, and Jim Lauderdale is calling a friend long distance from a pay phone in the pool room of the Double Door bar in Charlotte, North Carolina. The friend is Emmylou Harris, whose prominent harmony vocals grace a Lauderdale […]
Though a seemingly endless line of talented Texans have helped Austin remain a roots-music mecca for decades, the city’s pool of talent has grown considerably deeper through the relocation of artists from other regions of the country. A good case […]
For some players, music is ultimately just a stop along the road. I’m reminded of many aspiring musicians I’ve known over the years who eventually gave up the ghost and moved on: the Doctors’ Mob guitarist who’s now a record-store […]
Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. — St. Augustine How many times have you read a record review with the word “longing” in it? “The longing in her voice was palpable.” “Few write with such […]
On the fourth floor of a hundred-year-old white brick warehouse in downtown St. Louis, Nadine has a practice space, a 24-track recording studio, and a comfortable lounge area outfitted with early-’60s sofas, a console stereo of the same approximate vintage, […]
Ray Mason has spent his life pulling rock ‘n’ roll music out of his beat-up Silvertone guitar and Peavey Mace amplifier. Mason’s country-gentleman smile seems to dwarf the green Silvertone, making it seem like half a guitar. And the Mace […]
On either end of Rosavelt’s new record, Transistor Blues, you can almost hear the sound of a finger turning the page of an engaging book. Signaling the band’s gutsy rock intentions, “Channel One” ignites the record with feedback, distortion and […]
For their first Sunday show at the Little Red Hen, a classic country bar in Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood, the Souvenirs played to an audience of six — ten if you count the employees. But something happened on the way […]
Tom Piazza’s provocative portrait of bluegrass legend Jimmy Martin, originally written for the Oxford American, has been reissued in slightly amended book form by Vanderbilt Press/Country Music Foundation. True Adventures With The King Of Bluegrass has been expanded with additional […]
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