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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Back about 30 years ago, when I was first really immersing myself in country music, I bought a 78rpm record of singer Sue Thompson, and promptly fell in love — not with Thompson, though she was a fine singer, but […]
It happens all the time. You read an article in a music magazine, scratch your head and go, “Wait a minute, what does this have to do with the singer or record I thought I was reading about? This says […]
There’s no difference between singing a country song in a western suit and then going around behind the curtain and walking out the other side with a tux on and singing the same country song with a pop arrangement. It’s […]
Last June I embarked on one of the more insane road trips I’ve pulled off in my 34 years, leaving the annual Twangfest weekend in St. Louis early Saturday morning and hightailing it down to the Texas Hill Country for […]
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