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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Chuck Klosterman has written a loving and thoroughly unrepentant apology for the hair bands of the 1980s. What he calls heavy metal was merely hard rock where I came from, but thats not the point. This is: Have you ever […]
The past year has been good to Ralph Stanley. Winner of a Grammy award for his a cappella rendition of “O Death” from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Stanley has suddenly found himself the toast of the town […]
Bluegrassers love their music’s legendary figures, but they also want to see them working; as Ralph Stanley’s grueling show schedule suggests, “retirement” just isn’t in their vocabulary. On the one hand, this means that opportunities to hear them in person […]
It takes a special musician to perform a shambolic, flub-laden solo set in an unopened, unfinished record store with a shitty PA and send 600 people home happy. Easy Street Records’ new location, which didn’t formally open until a few […]
The signs were ever-so-slightly ominous: Take a raucous, fun-loving, five-piece band from the American South and dump them smack-dab into the crazed den of debauchery that occasionally passes as the city of Amsterdam, home of “anything goes” and unbridled hedonistic […]
I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? — Jackson Browne, “The Pretender” In a sense, all of Jackson Browne’s music has been […]
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