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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Song dogs, according to legend, are a canine breed that lived at the dawn of creation and howled their despair at the heavens. Canadian singer Jimmy Rankin dubbed his debut solo album Song Dog in honor of those four-legged singers. […]
“It’s a weird thing in the Information Age. There are people that know more about what you’ve done than you do,” says a chuckling Kevin Salem. “Like, I had forgotten that I had ever done anything with the Silos.” You […]
Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, went to Georgia in 1974 to record with members of Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band. It was the first time a big-name country hitmaker had cut an entire album with a […]
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 […]
“When you were alive/I was never alone/Somewhere in the world/There was something called home.” Rhymes, plainspoken and plainly felt, open the last song of Last Man On Earth, the 19th album by Loudon Wainwright III, his first set of new […]
Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette, Louisiana, is held annually over the third weekend in September. After the events of the 11th, organizers consulted with local police and clergy, then declared their intention to proceed with this year’s festival. Their press release […]
August found the heart of Austin, Texas, beating in a mournfully irregular fashion after the loss on August 20 of John “Mambo” Treanor, arguably the city’s most prolific, eccentric and best-loved drummer. Mambo, 48, died after what is usually referred […]
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