2000

Laura Cantrell has had a big influence on the country music scene in New York City, primarily through her role as the host of WFMU’s “Radio Thrift Shop”, where she spins a delightful mix of old country and alt-country and […]

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“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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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