“I grew up with country and gospel music,” says Slim Cessna, who was first inspired by Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” at age 6, “horrified and amazed at the same time” by the sweat pouring off Cash’s forehead on the […]
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Two weeks from now, this little Kansas City bar will be the scene for the CD release party for The Spectacular Sadness Of Rex Hobart And The Misery Boys, produced by renowned Skeletons honcho Lou Whitney. Tonight, it’s just Rex […]
Ten-year Californian Phil Cody recalls his old stomping grounds of Cincinnati as a place with a little bit of everywhere. “Cincinnati is right on the Ohio River with Kentucky across the way [so there’s] all the river traffic bringing stuff […]
In 1975, as America stepped out of the shadow of Watergate and into the hollow pride of the bicentennial, filmmaker Robert Altman turned his gaze on Music City and conjured a bleak analogy for the national mood called Nashville. “Minnie […]
I’m going to write about East L.A. I’m going to write about the fruit vendors, the sewing women in the sweatshops, the smell of the tortilleria, the sounds that waft through the air on Saturdays from backyard parties, the Mexican […]
Everybody’s got a Greyhound story. You haven’t really yanked the slack out of the Great American Road Trip until you’ve gone Greyhound. And you will wind up with a story. The Grey Dog is every country music song ever written, […]
As a young girl, Jennie Benford would fall asleep to the strains of her father’s bluegrass band rehearsing in their Northern Vermont home. One night she awoke to a song she hadn’t heard before, the traditional murder ballad “Pretty Polly”. […]
Any mutt chomping into the opening cut of Beware Of Dog, the Hangdogs’ new CD, might think he’s just met the business end of a buzz saw. Savage guitars, a relentless rhythm and caustic vocals shadow a Texas wife as […]
In a 1996 feature in The Austin Chronicle, Merle Haggard told interviewer Tim Stegall, “I’ll play the game now. I’ll do everything I’m supposed to do, and see if that’s what it is.” He was speaking of Nashville, and his was […]
Our story begins one sweltering night in the dog days of summer in 1991, at the Hole in the Wall, a dive on The Drag (a.k.a. Guadalupe Street) in Austin where a million stories have begun over the years. I’m […]
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