“Where have all the flowers gone?” — Pete Seeger “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?” — Bob Dylan “What can a poor boy do, ‘cept sing for a rock ‘n’ roll band?” […]
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“The dancing stops, but the music goes on.” In the deepest blue of night, in the wee hours of September 29th, Mickey Newbury drifted off to dream at his home in rural Oregon, and never came back. His passing was […]
In 1995, singer-songwriter John Bunzow seemed on the verge of a career breakthrough. After years touring the rough-and-tumble bars of the northeastern United States, he’d moved to Nashville, inked a major-label deal, and was about to release his debut recording, […]
This issue, in many ways, felt like a landmark for us. First and foremost is our cover subject, something that’s been in the works for a good while. It’s rather obvious that Johnny Cash is a natural for our magazine’s […]
When Catherine Ann Irwin — best-known as half of the creative nucleus of Freakwater — was a just a tot, she learned that her financial security for life had been provided for. Or so she thought. It was the early […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 3 Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (Columbia) 4 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Capitol) 5 Dixie Chicks, Home (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia) 6 Flatlanders, […]
It’s a cheerful, sunny afternoon in a quiet residential neighborhood in Antwerp, a Belgian city known for its old, cobbled streets and its flourishing diamond trade. Antwerp isn’t the first place that comes to mind when thinking about country music. […]
There are fans of the mid-’90s Kansas City avant-garde math-rock band Giant’s Chair who remember its guitar player and leader Scott Hobart driving around town in a statement-making “art car” — a ’67 Plymouth Belvedere with its hood covered in […]
In this new collection, writer Colin Escott proves again that he has impeccable taste, a world-class record collection, and a fascination with the behind-the-scenes artistic choices and business dealings that, sometimes, transform mere records into hits. If Roadkill On The […]
The year is 1965, and you’ve just dropped your last quarter in the jukebox nestled in the corner of your local honky-tonk tavern. First comes the twangin’ guitar lope of “Makin’ It Up As I Go”, the tale of a […]
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