Music has always been a family matter for Bill Chambers. When he formed the Dead Ringer Band in the late 1980s, it was a musical expression of the close-knit love, shared faith and fierce independence that typifies the Chambers family. […]
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Some musicians play so loud, so fast, so hard that they test the boundaries between music and noise. The clumsy ones lose control and collapse into incoherence, but the agile ones — say, the Velvet Underground, Husker Du, R.L. Burnside […]
If you want me to suggest where to eat barbecue in Austin and outlying areas, you are going to have to make some leaps of faith. Good barbecue is a mysterious thing, and great barbecue is downright mystical. So the […]
If those who don’t learn from history are likely to repeat it, then perhaps those who most acutely feel the lessons of the past are the best candidates to completely set it aside and start afresh. Three-quarters of torch-twang ensemble […]
TALK OF THE TOWNES: In The Beginning, a collection of Townes Van Zandt demos recorded in 1966 — a couple years before the release of his debut album — will be released April 22 by Houston label Compadre Records. Nine […]
1 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note) 2 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (Lost Highway/American) 3 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Live (Rounder) 4 Dixie Chicks, Home (Wide Open/Monument/Sony) 5 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series […]
The politics of ranting: A dissenting view So, Steve Earle needs a year off from work. Tsk, tsk. Most of us working stiffs are lucky to have maybe three weeks of vacation a year after fifteen years of service…and for […]
Our March-April issue inevitably tends to be at least tangentially focused on South By Southwest, the behemoth music confab held every mid-March down in Austin, Texas. To borrow the tired but true adage, SXSW is spring break for the music […]
And we thought West Texas was wild. The year was 1978 and our band had just landed in London. We were fresh out of the honky-tonks of West Texas, with the wind in our hair and cowshit still on our […]
It’s a good thing that Steve Earle likes to talk, because it seems like he’s always got a lot of explaining to do. Earle once turned up late for a concert in Atlanta, forcing headliner Rosanne Cash to go on […]
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