The waitress serving pecan waffles at the north Texas truckstop — and she is far too young to carry such heavy black bags beneath her brown eyes — takes only a few steps from the table before turning back with […]
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Back in his tiny catch-all of a kitchen, Kevin Kinney is pulling a pair of black jeans from the dryer and fretting over soap stains. “I’m the Loretta Lynn of rock ‘n’ roll,” he declares suddenly, taking an ironic jab […]
Johnny Staats received an unusual amount of media attention leading up to the March release of Wires & Wood, his Giant Records debut. Much of the focus in reports by such high-profile sources as The New York Times, People and […]
Before Uncle Tupelo joined the major-label ranks by signing to Sire/Reprise for their 1993 swan song, producer and label impresario Rick Rubin — a man instrumental in launching the careers of the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy — signed a […]
Ian Moore’s Got The Green Grass was the sound of an artist breaking free from the record-industry box. Released on Moore’s own label, Hablador, in 1999, it was his personalized resurrection after a four-year absence from the record racks. Capricorn […]
You don’t know me You ain’t got a clue No, you don’t know me But, honey, I know you — “You Don’t Know Me”, Gurf Morlix To know Gurf Morlix, let’s start with his name: “If you were a policeman […]
State law in Pennsylvania requires beer tap lines to be cleaned every week, which is no doubt why a freshly poured Yuengling tastes so good. Four days a week, Darren Schlappich gets up at 5 a.m. to clean the beer […]
Exactly one month prior to the April 18 release of his debut album on Mercury Nashville, Eric Heatherly is pumped. That disc, Swimming In Champagne, is the culmination of nearly a decade of gigging in Nashville and throughout North America. […]
The perfectly good idea behind this book is to let the fans speak for themselves. (The idea behind this review is to let a fan review them.) Previous Dylan books have tended to the biographical, the analytical or the severely […]
In the summer of 1973, Doug Sahm had settled into a rambling, leased wooden house on a tree-shaded hillside above the Soap Creek Saloon out on Bee Caves Road, in what was then rural Austin, Texas. His furnishings were simple: […]
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