“I’m still waitin’ to figure out what it is I’m gonna be.” Sitting across the table from her at a Sylvan Park neighborhood cafe in Nashville, performance poet Minton Sparks embodies everything she sounds like on recording and by phone. […]
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My vision is to tease people. I never make a stand, you know, never put my feet down. If I write a love song, I’ll always make fun of it to my friends. As a matter of fact, I’m sickeningly […]
One of my earliest — and most vivid — memories is of the roadside in Renfro Valley, Kentucky. What was so impressive about the side of the road was that cars were parked along it, bumper to bumper. Nice cars, […]
There are many facets to Roger McGuinn. Among them, of course, is the durable rock icon whose fanciful songs, plaintive vocals and ringing 12-string Rickenbacker were the abiding glue in the myriad lineups of folk-rock pioneers the Byrds. More pertinent […]
For five years, Tandy has been quietly crafting some of the finest music you’ve probably never heard. With the release of their fourth disc, The Bloodroot Transcriptions, on Yellow Slipper Records, the band has discovered a newfound force and grace. […]
As a musician and songwriter, Tom Freund has had more than his fair share of ups and downs. He’s also made some remarkable musical connections along the way. Having just released his second album, Sympatico, his first on his new […]
Evidently it wasn’t just the grrls who felt like exiles amid the testosterone-fueled Chicago indie-rock scene immortalized in Liz Phair’s mythical Guyville. The Webb Brothers — latecomers to that post-grunge alt-rock mecca (and sons of songwriting legend Jimmy Webb) — […]
Writing in a 1998 issue of the Village Voice, Robert Christgau adduced that John Lee Hooker, who died in his sleep on June 21, was nearly 140 years old. The bluesman was only 80 at the time, which Christgau of […]
Johnny Russell was a singer, songwriter, comedian, and popular Grand Ole Opry performer best known for writing (in cahoots with Voni Morrison) the hit song “Act Naturally”. Covered by numerous artists, most notably Buck Owens and the Beatles, “Act Naturally” […]
West Coast guitarist Roy Nichols was one of the most influential axemen in country music. Though he was best known for his long run as a member of Merle Haggard’s band the Strangers, Nichols was already a seasoned pro by […]
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