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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Ordinarily we don’t discover the connective tissue of each issue until these late moments, when certain words or songs or ideas reveal themselves to be themes running through our pages. Not this time, of course. Friday night, September 14, was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury staffer Kira Florita and historian Colin Escott came across a large quantity of unpublished ephemera that forms the basis for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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