He may have been through some rough times in the recent past, but Billy Joe Shaver soldiers on. Musically, his biggest loss was the New Year’s Eve 2000 death of his guitar-player son Eddie, which resulted in the band they […]
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“You don’t have to stand in the doorway — there’s no earthquake,” quipped Blazers guitarist Manuel Gonzalez to two wallflowers who had crammed themselves in a jamb. Not an earthquake, but certainly a post-flood heat wave, as the warehouse doors […]
Musicians who play the Cave on a July night earn every penny they make. The humidity off the street slides in the front door and through the cracks in the wall of this basement-level bar, while crashes and shouts drift […]
Looking like an ancient Hopi trickster, his eyes gleaming with malevolent glee, Link Wray took the stage like a primal force of nature with his elemental power chords that announced he was ready to “Rumble” — the murderous instrumental that […]
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 […]
SECOND TIME AROUND: The DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS’ double-disc Southern Rock Opera, originally issued last fall on the band’s own label, has been picked up by Lost Highway Records and will receive a national release on July 16. The label has also […]
As would be expected from both Robbie Robertson and director Martin Scorsese, the new DVD edition of The Last Waltz has received superb audio and visual transfers. The cover boasts that this is “the finest of all rock movies.” In […]
Sometimes this 2/3-page hole begs to be filled with comments and observations on a hot subject or timely topic. Other times, nothing obvious rises to the fore that demands to be written about. See if you can guess which one […]
Losing country: And rock ‘n’ roll too? I thought Grant Alden made an important point in his Mike Ireland review [ND #39, May-June 2002] — that, mostly, real country music is no longer the music of “country people.” I’ve often […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 3 Kasey Chambers, Barricades And Brickwalls (Warner Bros.) 4 Uncle Tupelo, 89/93 Anthology (Sony Legacy) 5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite […]
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