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 […]
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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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some books are too beautiful to read, and even if one never actually opened Debby Bull’s Hillbilly Hollywood: The Origins Of Country & Western Style (Rizzoli), its gorgeous, rhinestone-and-die-cut cover will brighten any well-appointed coffee table. Filled with a history […]
With the same demure bearing their songs often display, Chicago’s Dolly Varden quietly took Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room stage and proceeded to affirmatively perform almost every cut from their third release, The Dumbest Magnets. With the same five-piece that recorded […]
Born in rural Daviess County, Indiana, on January 28, 1924, Ramona Riggins is best known as the wife of the late Grandpa Jones. But by the time World War II ended and she became his second spouse, Ramona was a […]
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 […]
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