2000

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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