Sebastopol: “A small semi-urban community located on the western edge of the Santa Rosa plain in Northern California. It is 50 miles north of San Francisco, and about 15 miles from the Russian River. The city, incorporated in 1902, currently […]
As we round another bend, the dark of night and the serenity of the Central Texas countryside is abruptly disturbed. Pulsing red lights encircle an 18-wheeler, flipped like a centipede on the side of the road, at least four Johnny […]
Friday, September 14, 2001. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 20,000 people are shoulder to shoulder on the Library Mall, honoring victims of the attacks in New York and Washington. The air is cool, but the sun is high […]
The Derailers deliver one hell of a honky-tonk Saturday night. The band’s hard, swinging shuffle is nailed down tight by drummer Mark Horn, a flawless timekeeper in the Buddy Harman mode; Horn smiles so broadly throughout the Derailers’ sets that […]
Search high and low among the articles and programs about “Women In Rock” and you will be hard pressed to find a mention of Cindy Bullens. Despite over two decades as a girl with guitar, touted as a female Bruce […]
Neal Casal is at the wheel of a fifteen-passenger government baby blue van. It is a late grey morning just before autumn’s official reign begins. The dog days of summer appear to have fled early. Gear has just been loaded […]
Read what you will into a band’s iconography, but in the case of Milwaukee’s Aimless Blades, seeing is believing. Displayed on the cover of the band’s debut disc, Land Of Souvenirs (Madcity Records) are Catholic votive candles topping a Day […]
I once read an interview with Ashley Judd in which a reporter asked her how she felt about music. “Oh, music is the balm,” she said. Now I have to agree that truer words were never spoken. In the days […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Lucinda Williams, Essence (Lost Highway) 3 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony) 4 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder) 5 Various Artists, Down From The Mountain […]
Adams’ Gold: No foolin’ I usually don’t take issue with critical reviews. I find aesthetics arguments pointless. I try to take what I can from a review and leave it at that. But you guys lost me on the Ryan […]
