“One of the greatest feelings that you have in the music business, I guess, is when you walk out onstage and start doing something, a song that you’ve had airplay on, and you hit the intro and the fans start […]
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There has historically been much talk, in Texas anyway, about what it means to be a Texan, what defines Texan-ness, what tie could possibly bind the scattered peoples within those far-flung borders. The answer is this: That which defines Texanity […]
The first thing you notice at a Domino Kings show is the mile-deep fullness of their honky-tonk sound. Their music is as real and natural as breathing. Between songs, you suddenly notice they could not only travel comfortably in a […]
“Some gotta wiiiiiin, some gotta loooooose…” When Danny O’Keefe stretches out those words in the classic chorus to his 1972 hit “Goodtime Charlie’s Got The Blues”, it can settle a chattery barroom to a reverent hush, his soaring tenor floating […]
Despite coming of age in the late-’60s/early-’70s — when seemingly every other lead guitar player with a few months of spotlighted solos under his belt would split off to front his own band — exemplary guitarist and first-rate songwriter Danny […]
On those days when it is possible to believe that art matters, it is also necessary to remember what it costs: Everything. Every last damn thing. Yes, it is possible to win big, to become an international sensation, to have […]
You don’t want to go down that old dirt road. That hundred yards of 45-degree incline pocked and puddled by yesterday’s monsoon wants something more agile than a nine-year-old Ford. A mule maybe. At the foot of it, though, is […]
1 Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch) 2 John Hiatt, Crossing Muddy Waters (Vanguard) 3 Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man (American) 4 Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (Bloodshot) 5 Willie Nelson, Milk Cow Blues (Island) 6 Merle Haggard, If I Could […]
Carter Family Fold: The place to be After reading about the Carter Family Fold (ND #13, Jan.-Feb. 1998), my girl and I decided to take a trip down there and check it out for ourselves. We camped nearby the night […]
Our most recently concluded presidential lottery is the first for which I might Constitutionally have been eligible. It is, remember, no longer required that one be a landed white male to stand for that office, but one must still have […]
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