Steve Tagliere and Seth Rothschild first met at a Neil Young show at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles in March 1999 — but they didn’t even speak that night, as Young’s performance was so terrific that Rothschild calls it […]
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Townes is dead and Guy is co-writing these days. Eric Taylor is drinking Hennessy cognac, watching people watch him, then flipping through a black notebook where he keeps the songs. It’s Anderson Fair in Houston, or the Sandwich Factory in […]
Every year new artists are accepted by each of the various facets of Nashville and touted as the saviors of…whatever. So to say that Elizabeth Cook is the latest artist in Nashville to catch the attention of certain ears isn’t […]
It all started one Sunday morning several years ago at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena, California. There, among the mission furniture, the Fiesta ware and the art pottery, I came across a vintage color publicity photograph of Gene […]
Back in a bygone era, when such distinctions were deemed important, Bobby Earl Smith was among the first musicians in Texas to make music that both rednecks and hippies could dance to while enjoying a cultural armistice of sorts down […]
For Barbara K, it’s all about the groove. Her songs are filled with percussion and rhythms that are instantly attractive and draw the listener closer. “Music that grooves is a lot more interesting,” she says. “Groove creates intimacy among the […]
In the best possible way, you never know what you’ll get out of Alejandro Escovedo from one performance to the next. He might show up in your town leading an elaborately arranged orchestra, or with a screaming stripped-down rock band […]
It snowed last night, and the trees are heavy clumped with white. Marc Benning is describing the view from the telephone in his recording studio, home of his record company, Hideaway. Out his window he can see Pike’s Peak, and […]
1 Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man (American) 2 Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch) 3 John Hiatt, Crossing Muddy Waters (Vanguard) 4 Merle Haggard, If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph) 5 Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (Bloodshot) 6 Various Artists, O […]
Morells/Skeletons: American music I was thrilled to read Daniel Durchholz’s article [ND #31, Jan.-Feb. 2001] about the greatest band in the land. The Morells/Skeletons, whatever you call them, have had me rockin’ ever since I found their first LP, Shake […]
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