The songwriter bemoaned the state of popular music, which marginalized the serious artist and glorified the shallow and inane: “I could hire out to the other side, the big money side….But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve […]
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Randy Casey is driven like a man with a life’s calling; it just gets a little tricky trying to figure out what that calling is. He’s an outstanding cook, an avid sports fan, a gardener, and, yes, a musician. He’s […]
Roots music, that blend of folk, blues and country, served as the building blocks for much of the popular music of the 20th century. In Romancing The Folk, Benjamin Filene examines the history of the American folk music tradition, and […]
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The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury staffer Kira Florita and historian Colin Escott came across a large quantity of unpublished ephemera that forms the basis for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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