One month after his 23rd birthday, a young man stepped up to the microphone at Sun Studios in March 1955 and began to sing. By year’s end, Johnny Cash’s life would never be the same, and both country music and […]
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A voice we thought we would never hear again has unexpectedly returned. In 1987, Linda Thompson was recording a country album for Columbia Nashville with Herb Pedersen producing and David Lindley and David Grisman playing the session. It was meant […]
There are five of them now, these albums credited to a California desert aggregate called the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers — or, in the case of the two most recent releases, Mark Olson & the Creekdippers. Five records in six […]
As dedications go, it’s refreshingly short, sweet and to the point: “Thank you to the people and places I come from,” singer-songwriter Pieta Brown writes in the CD booklet of her debut album. It’s how she sums up the close-knit […]
On Chuck Prophet’s gripping 2000 album The Hurting Business, one track stood out from the rest. On “Dyin’ All Young”, amidst a soulful but depressed groove, Prophet sang of a mother’s anguish upon discovering her son’s fatal drug overdose. “Something […]
UFOs spotted over Music City, USA? Just maybe…alien meddling is a pretty plausible explanation for Starlings, TN and its otherworldly hybridization of Celtic-flavored bluegrass, old-time string music and they-are-out-there psychedelia. On its debut disc The Leaper’s Fork (Chicken Ranch Records), […]
The musical partnership at the core of the Wichita Shut-Ins began a couple years ago at the Hideout, where Lawrence Peters played regularly with a loose outfit known as Deanna Varagona’s Gospel Jubilee. The crowd usually amounted to a dozen […]
Will Rigby is “one of a mere handful of rock drummers with a sound of his own beyond mere beat-keeping.” Or so claimed the dB’s write-up in the fourth edition of the Trouser Press Record Guide, published in 1991. “If […]
Bass player Hillous Butrum died on April 27 in Nashville. Butrum was most famous for being a member of Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys, but he also played with Benny Martin, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, and the blackface duo Jamup & […]
In celebration of his 70th year on earth, a slew of labels have Johnny Cash releases on their schedules. Sony is releasing several batches of CDs, Mercury is laying their Cash on the line, Marty Stuart has his Kindred Spirits […]
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