“I grew up with country and gospel music,” says Slim Cessna, who was first inspired by Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” at age 6, “horrified and amazed at the same time” by the sweat pouring off Cash’s forehead on the […]
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Back in 1973, when banjo picker Greg Cahill got together with fellow grad students at the University of Chicago to play music, it was strictly for fun. This much is evident from the various names the informal band adopted, including […]
At the Kerrville Folk Festival this year, Terri Hendrix looked out at the Texas Hill Country crowd and saw a lot of familiar faces. “I saw ten years worth of people who have been supporting me,” she said. “It was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Joe Papp was the theatrical impresario instrumental in the development of the New York Shakespeare Festival and The Public Theater. From unusual treatments of the Bard in Central Park, to presentation of groundbreaking plays by David Mamet, to revolutionary musicals […]
The man of the hour said it all in a single sentence. Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy strummed a simple progression on a battered acoustic guitar, peered out toward the balcony of the Park West, and, in his best Dylan deadpan, […]
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 […]
Often referred to as more a legend than a band, The Flatlanders — Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock — have, for the last two years, built upon that legend. Reuniting to record a song for the soundtrack […]
Willis Alan Ramsey looked perplexed, deciding how to deal politely with one fool on a stool who obviously loves his music but wouldnt shut up and listen. Ramseys performance is quiet and introspective, mixing classics with new material. On this […]
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