“Hard times are hanging ’round my door,” Wayne Turnage sings on the opening of Fair River Station’s 16 Cuts, the band’s debut disc on Black Dog Records. Listening to his husky, time-worn voice, it’s not hard to believe. He’s on […]
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Seldom is heard, in conversation with Dan Penn, a discouraging word. Until you try to hang a label on him: Is he a songwriter, a producer or a performer? “I don’t like to be put in boxes. People think they’ve […]
Dallas Wayne Jr. was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1956 and grew up in nearby Branson and Cape Girardeau, but he was over 40 years old before a phone call to Finland from a friend he met in Chicago finally […]
Richard Buckner first entered my consciousness in 1990, long before I knew his name. He worked as a clerk at A Cappella Books in Atlanta’s Little Five Points. I might have asked him a question once, I’m not sure. I […]
Friday night has finally rolled around and droves of young people descend on the Foothill Club in Signal Hill as dusk settles on Orange County. It takes more than an hour for the line winding around the block and into […]
Who says a long-term stint at a hotel bar in a tourist town is a dead-end gig for musicians? For Bill and Bonnie Hearne, a longtime Wednesday and Thursday night engagement at La Fonda — Santa Fe’s oldest hotel, and […]
1 Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues (E-Squared/Artemis) 2 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue II (Elektra) 3 Dave Alvin, Public Domain (HighTone) 4 Neil Young, Silver & Gold (Reprise) 5 Sam Bush, Ice Caps: Peaks Of Telluride (Sugar Hill) 6 Greg […]
Jon Langford: Country in the UK The Frustrated Musician From Chicago [Box Full Of Letters, ND #29, Sept.-Oct. 2000] has every right to believe that his or her (I suspect ‘his’) path to success and riches is being blocked by […]
Change is in the air. In early September we gathered in Seattle to celebrate our fifth anniversary, hearing good tunes and toasting good times and remembering all it has taken to get where we are (wherever that is). Then it […]
In his intro to Rock Albums Of The ’70s, longtime Village Voice scribe Robert Christgau claims, “I’ve tried to grade every ’70s rock album worth owning” — an assertion that flirts precipitously with both hubris and foolhardiness. But excepting the […]
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