For all the time spent writing and rewriting, learning and relearning, searching and researching, endlessly following that long and winding road traveled by those whose lives are mesmerized by music…it is, ultimately, a matter of the moment. Craft and practice […]
In years to come, anyone who stumbles into Talpa Cemetery in West Texas may see a small memorial stone engraved with the titles of four songs that, in their oblique way, tell Roxy Gordon’s story. The songs are Hank Williams’ […]
“We’re gonna do some songs about drinkin’ and smokin’ and bein’ up all night and livin’ free,” proclaimed 27-year-old Shelton Hank Williams III as he took the stage, three shots of appeared to be Jaegermaister perched atop a speaker in […]
Rock critics suck. They’re cynical, jaded elitists who take pleasure in panning the popular and touting the purposefully obscure. How else to explain the avalanche of unambiguous praise heaped on the Magnetic Fields’ 1999 album, the triple-disc 69 Love Songs, […]
If “Nineteen” had become a hit, the prospect of a Rhett Miller solo tour may have sent young America into a frenzy. Millions of teens would have wondered, “Is Rhett pulling a Ginger Spice?” Alas, the world is still normal. […]
“We’re sharing a van, a band and a dog on this tour,” Kelly Hogan told a sold-out audience on hand at the Horseshoe to see her share the stage with Neko Case. “And pretty soon we’re all going to be […]
When the title of last year’s “Country & Roots” festival changed for this year to “Rhythm & Roots”, some people feared the quality of the lineup might suffer. After all, rhythm could mean any number of things. Thankfully, their fears […]
And they sat quietly. The whole house, full. Nearly silent, applauding often, rapt through 28 songs, except when Ralph Stanley took the stage and then they all stood, and when it was all over they stood for that, too, and […]
This hefty tome was assembled by the author himself. Spanning over 30 years, it mixes, fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and is connected with newly rendered annotations prefacing some of the entries. What links all of this writing — from musical […]
Watching Bill Mallonee perform solo one evening at Eddie’s Attic in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, it’s hard not to conjure obvious comparisons to his two heroes, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Peering out from his round glasses and down […]
