When I was in junior high, my nearly total musical passion was soul music. But for a couple of years there, between spinning 45s of the Staple Singers, O’Jays and Spinners, I would also regularly play a scratchy old LP […]
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Anyone even slightly familiar with the background of Merle Haggard’s music would be unsurprised to hear that Lefty Frizzell’s indispensable recordings of Jimmie Rodgers songs such as alt.country precursor “My Rough And Rowdy Ways” were among his prized boyhood possessions. […]
I remember nights like these when we were out in L.A., back before Grant moved to Nashville — waiting until the wee hours to write the “Hello Stranger” column, downing a coupla beers to hopefully help unloose a few words, […]
Richmond Fontaine: Blackstock, you ignorant slut Peter Blackstock’s review of Richmond Fontaine’s Lost Son [ND #25, Jan.-Feb. ’00] inspired one “printable” word: NONSENSE. Perhaps there are others — garbage, crap, you get the picture. Perhaps Blackstock should spend more time […]
1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy) 2 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 3 Ani DiFranco, To The Teeth (Righteous Babe) 4 Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill) 5 Kelly Willis, What […]
WOODY WOUNDUP: In addition to a second volume of Mermaid Avenue due from Billy Bragg & Wilco mentioned last issue and due out this spring (Wilco was in the studio in mid-January recording new tracks for it), another Woody Guthrie-related […]
In an underground bar near a gritty intersection in Hollywood, the sights and sounds suggest a gathering in Laurel Canyon some 30 years ago. Unruly hair, sideburns, and 1970-ish country-rock garb flourishes. Onstage, Beachwood Sparks churns out gobs of stratospheric […]
Editor’s note: More than a decade after he was shot and killed in a domestic dispute in February 1989, Blaze Foley is once again kicking up dust in Austin. Before his death at age 39, Foley had made a name […]
Bob Neuwirth is on a train, in a very funny scene in Bob Dylan’s obscure 1975 film Renaldo & Clara, doing his best to get the conductor’s goat, faking like he doesn’t know his destination. Neuwirth: “Any particular city we’re […]
By the time Charlie Major released his third album in 1997, he had come to expect respect. After selling over 300,000 albums, charting 10 hit singles and collecting three Junos (Canada’s Grammy equivalent), he was Canada’s king of new country. […]
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