Having just come in from mowing her lawn, and in a domestic mood, Deanna Varagona puts on R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People. Loud. In many ways Athens represents “home” to Varagona: It’s a place she lived poor but happy among […]
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Don Morrell threw in a few tear-jerkers on his recent CD, After All These Years. But heartfelt tunes such as “I Have Friends (Who Are Never Coming Back)” and “Roadside Cross”, though crowd-pleasers and radio-friendly, aren’t easy to perform now […]
When Emma Gibbs allowed her grandson and his buddies to practice at her house, she probably had no idea they would decide to thank her by naming their band after her. The material they worked on there eventually became Seven […]
Five years, 28 issues, 2,824 pages. It’s far too much to revisit in one sitting with any sense of completion, and entirely impossible to encapsulate on a single page. What follows, then, are simply a few things that made us […]
Even if you’ve never seen him do the GQ as the suit-and-tied host of PBS’ “Sessions At West 54th”, you may find it difficult to picture John Hiatt a-sittin’ and a-rockin’ on his back porch playing his perfectly good acoustic […]
I’m not half what I hoped that I’d become There’s still a long way to go — Kasey Chambers, “Don’t Talk Back” Kasey Chambers has traveled a long way in her 23 years. The open road, its heartbreaks and diversions, […]
We discover, indeed, that we don’t know our part; we look for a mirror; we want to rub off the make-up and remove everything that is artificial, and become real. But somewhere a piece of our disguise still sticks to […]
Those seeking a further understanding of Jay Farrar’s pungent, elliptical poetry will find no clear answers in the work of his father, James Paul “Pops” Farrar. Rather, they will discover a different kind of artist altogether, a wise and weathered […]
“Mama said I used to go out in the yard when I was around nine or ten years old. My dad had cut down this big oak tree and left a stump there, and Mama said I’d get up on […]
Red Star Belgrade’s bio, a random assortment of trivial fragments, collapses into a kind of loose-limbed rock ‘n’ roll riddle: What Chicago-based/roots-rock/husband-and-wife duo started its career as a Chapel Hill, North Carolina, outfit named after a legendary but tarnished First […]
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