Grateful Dead: Gold in that thar box! Loved issue #37 [Jan.-Feb. 2002] as usual. Your side-by-side reviews of the new Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival boxes sounded just like I had written it…in 1973. Jerry Garcia was the tie-dyed […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Bob Dylan, Love And Theft (Columbia) 3 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway) 4 Lyle Lovett, Anthology Vol. 1: Cowboy Man (Curb/MCA) 5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New […]
In a Chattanooga bar, I fell in love with country music. You can blame cheap beer and a dollar’s worth of jukebox Uncle Tupelo, but I fell hard for banjos and fiddles and, yes, even line dancing. I bought myself […]
Bluegrass is about players and characters, a certain place and perhaps even a certain time. For young upstarts like the Benders to come along and ply such singular country fare around the Irish bars and roots-rock clubs of Boston and […]
Few recent bands have inspired as much lore as Whiskeytown. A lot of the mythology surrounding the North Carolina group involved volume and velocity, but not just in terms of loud fast rules: Bandleader Ryan Adams wrote so many songs […]
In the end, for all its swagger and style and violent enthusiasms, rock ‘n’ roll is child’s play. Big loud fun, big dumb sex, nothing wrong with that, and long may you run. Sometimes…sometimes the music even sweeps another generation […]
“The festival was a celebration of a music, a people, a culture. It was la raza reclaiming their identity, their rights, their public space. It was sharing. It was sacred.” — Juan Tejeda, “Introduction,” Puro Conjunto “From the Anglo Texan […]
ROCKIN’ AROUND THE HOF: Country and rock pioneer BRENDA LEE will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on March 18. Other inductees include TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS and the late CHET ATKINS. The induction ceremonies […]
Fourkiller Flats is all but belligerently uncowed about wearing its Uncle Tupelo and Whiskeytown influences on its guitar straps. It’s a refreshing posture in the wake of the occasional anti-alt-country drift, and besides, on them it sounds good. The band’s […]
You saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, “A man with no alibi.” — Bob Dylan I’m just a popular singer. — Freddy Fender El Be Bop Kid is not a kid anymore. “Shit, I’m […]
