Songwriter Otis Blackwell, author of several touchstones of early rock ‘n’ roll, died May 6 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 70. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Blackwell briefly pursued a singing career as a young man, but it was as […]
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We met in prison. And that’s where the David Allan Coe/Merle Haggard shtick terminates, because John Shimon and Julie Lindemann are photographers, and I am a writer-for-hire, and we were sent to the Big House under the aegis of a […]
As someone taken enough with alternative country to be reading this sentence, have you been feeling just a little dissed lately? A little put down? It’s becoming commonplace to see bands and artists congratulated for “breaking free, at last, from […]
Beth Orton is the most genial kind of diffident interview subject: She dislikes the process, but entertains every question, and will readily cop to that fact that, even when the subject is herself, she doesn’t have all the answers. “I […]
Bobby Bare has gone fishing two hours east and a jog north of Nashville. Has been there for a couple weeks now, and shows absolutely no interest in coming home. The fish are reasonably cooperative, the cabin’s free — courtesy […]
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 […]
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