A dozen years after the release of the band’s masterpiece, Fisherman’s Blues, most people assume the Waterboys have devolved into Mike Scott and a bunch of stand-ins. But at the first West Coast Waterboys show in five years, Scott took […]
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“South By So What?” No doubt that song on Ronny Elliott’s 2000 release, My Nerves Are Bad Tonight, speaks for hundreds of artists for whom the annual confab is a boondoggle. Elliott thinks the song hurt his career, but more […]
Torture, the Spanic Boys’ first album since the Internet-only 1998 collectable Walk Through Fire, is a strong assortment of dark odes and obscenely tight harmonies burnished with the stellar double-guitar sound that’s been the father-son duo’s trademark since 1986. But […]
Some things are just too good to hold back, like Thad Cockrell & the Starlite Country Band’s debut album Stack Of Dreams (Miles Of Music). The bulk of the album was recorded in just one day at producer Chris Stamey’s […]
In baseball, a five-tool player is recognized as one with superstar potential, able to throw, run, field, hit for average and hit with power. In rock ‘n’ roll, Eddie Cochran was a five-tool musician, with skills as a guitarist, singer, […]
One day, the story goes — and it’s a true story — Johnny Bragg walked in on his teenage girlfriend and his best friend. A fight ensued (he lost), and the explanation she offered her parents was that Bragg had […]
John Fahey first died in 1964 shortly after going insane. Thus wrote one Chester Petranick (John Fahey) in the notes to the 1967 version of the eponymous LP of the Fahey-discovered aging bluesman “Blind Joe Death” (John Fahey). Blind Joe […]
On March 14, 56-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist Randall Hylton died in Nashville, Tennessee, after suffering an aneurysm. “America’s Foremost Bluegrass Songwriter” is how he was described on a 1994 album cover, and it was a plausible billing. His songs were recorded by […]
Acknowledged as one of country music’s greatest harmonica players, Arkansas native Lonnie Glosson died March 2 at age 93. Glosson was a regular on Chicago radio station WLS’ National Barn Dance show and various other country radio programs from the […]
After a brutal execution, the killer, Leonard Shelby, tosses his gun aside, fetches a camera and snaps a Polaroid of the crime scene. We watch as the picture slowly develops…and then as it slowly fades away. You see, the gunman […]
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