It’s frustrating, not creating a stir in your own country while knowing that, in Texas, the public was excited by your music. Lazy Sunday Dream is a Dutch roots combo who would fare better in Chicago or Austin; the proof […]
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The show began not with a moment of silence but with a single loud thrashing guitar chord, followed by a blast of Dan Baird’s vocals (“I got a hankerin’”) and a wild rush of pure rock ‘n’ roll music that […]
The next day the world would change forever, but on this Monday night, San Franciscan Jim Campilongo’s brand of Jimmy Bryant meets Thelonious Monk music had its New York debut in the subterranean Old Office room of Manhattan’s Knitting Factory. […]
This veteran pub rock hero’s career goes back decades, of course, but he holds a special place in the hearts of twang-rock fans for his stand with Rockpile in the late 1970s — a U.K. contribution that kept the music […]
Many a singer-songwriter, or a low-volume band, would love to play the Corner Hotel on a night like this. The high-capacity rock ‘n’ roll venue had transformed itself into a “listening room,” its floor space made more intimate with velvet […]
When a Reprise label source was quoted in Rolling Stone as saying Wilco’s new album, Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, was “the side of the road, instead of the middle of the road,” one could imagine Jeff Tweedy thinking, “let us go […]
The title of this four-hour, 34-song marathon was long and sprawling, just like the event itself. Jon Langford was the host of “The Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Friends In Concert To Benefit The Wales-San Francisco-El Salvador Educational Initiative: The Las […]
Down in the Missouri Ozarks, the residents of Crane mark the end of summer with the Broiler Festival. A holdover from the days when locals earned their living in the processed chicken industry, the celebration has been a Crane tradition […]
During a stirring rendition of “O Death”, Ralph Stanley’s weathered voice filled St. Paul’s cozy Turf Club and seemed to seep deep into the bodies of the 400 people who were lucky enough to snag a spot inside the small […]
And the box set begat the book. While assembling text and images for 1998’s ten-disc The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury staffer Kira Florita and historian Colin Escott came across a large quantity of unpublished ephemera that forms the basis for […]
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