It had to be asked: What took so long? On the other end of the phone line, Greg Hawks laughs. “I’ve been asking that question a lot myself over the last few years.” Hawks’ band, the Tremblers, was formed in […]
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“People will be like, ‘God, I don’t ever wanna see that Scott McCaughey guy again!’” Scott McCaughey is discussing his band’s — or rather (and more to the point), his two bands’ — upcoming West Coast tour, wondering if perhaps […]
As the tongue-in-cheek opening titles make explicitly clear, Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest opus, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, is based (loosely) on Homer’s Odyssey. Our hero, Ulysses (get it?) Everett McGill, must brave a series of adventures across 1930s […]
Based on the mental image created by Suzie Ungerleider’s songs, it shouldn’t be hard to spot her among the lunching businessmen and well-heeled tourists in a posh Toronto hotel dining room. Over the course of an EP and two albums, […]
“We’d like to leave you with this wonderful old Bill Monroe song,” says Caleb Roberts, mandolin player for Open Road, as the band finishes up a show at the Olde Town Pickin’ Parlor, a music store just outside of Denver. […]
Driving west on I-10 from Austin, the desert creeps up on you, gradually revealing itself mile after mile after mile until the entire landscape has changed. The winding rivers, lazy lakes, scrubby trees and colorful flowers of the Texas Hill […]
There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, […]
Split Lip Rayfield is deservedly known as an amazing live band. Four regular-looking guys trickle onto the stage, grab all the acoustic instruments a bluegrass band would use — except for Jeff Eaton’s bizarre-looking gas tank bass — and suddenly […]
The classic Seeburg jukebox anchors a room at Billy Bratcher’s house, accompanied by a vintage Merle Haggard poster. The jukebox tunes give this shrine its true meaning: Charlie Feathers jousts with Bill Monroe, Kitty Wells, Louis Jordan, and the Orioles. […]
Pilgrims, migrants, wayfaring strangers: recurring figures in the annals of Christianity and America. Their gaze fixed on far-distant shores, they are in a constant state of transition, never quite connecting with the world around them. A Southern Baptist and student […]
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