James Blackwood, founding member of the Blackwood Brothers quartet, died February 3, 2002, at the age of 82. He performed on over 200 albums and won nine Grammy awards. He was an influence upon, and inspiration to, Elvis Presley and […]
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You might miss the monument at first. It’s just a small granite pillar, partly overshadowed by trees at the edge of a parking lot on the corner of State Street and Edgemont Avenue in downtown Bristol. State Street is a […]
The last thing you might expect to spring, fully formed, from the suburban high school environs of San Antonio is a greasy rockabilly band. The Alamo City is much more notorious for keeping heavy metal dinosaurs like Ratt and Great […]
In midtown Kansas City, Chad Rex might not turn many heads. “I’m definitely not a flashy person,” he admits. “Not onstage, or even if I’m walking down the street.” Still, once he’s onstage — his sleepy eyes framed by the […]
On the surface, the Cornell Hurd Band seems like a super-proficient, ultra-tight, swing-tinged, rockabilly-informed Texas music collective. The extended ensemble — featuring fiddle, steel guitar, sax, piano and even rub-board — plays some of the tightest, music you’ve ever heard. […]
Git are the Andrews Sisters if the 1940s trio were featured as Australian tourists in The Last Picture Show. All wide smiles, bouncy rhythms and creamy harmonies with a close eye on the bus timetable, they’re a band that successfully […]
It’s no surprise by now that the opening, title track on Heather Myles’ new record Sweet Talk & Good Lies is a straight-ahead honky-tonk shuffle in the classic Bakersfield/Buck Owens mode. Nor that another, “One And Only Lover”, summons up […]
“I have pretty small dreams,” says Toby Burke. “And most people probably wouldn’t understand, but I’ve accomplished some of them.” Burke accomplished a dream from his boyhood in April, when he picked up the LA Weekly and saw his band, […]
Kelly Willis is out of control. And she loves it that way. “Life is really easy when you just let things go out of control,” she says. “You have to lose control to have control. That’s sort of a theme […]
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