You’d have the makings of one really good Chuck Berry biography if you were able to meld these two books together. But if you’ve got the time, it’s still worthwhile to read both, for each writer takes a noticeably different […]
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Obituary writers remembered Johnny Paycheck, who died February 18 at age 64, as an outlaw. For proof, most cited his 1977 hit version of David Allan Coe’s “Take This Job And Shove It”, for better or worse his signature tune. […]
They say there’s two kinds of people in the world: The day people and the night people And it’s the night people’s job to get the day people’s money. — “Nighttime” “Hey, hippie, why don’t you get a job?” Ray […]
Robinella and Cruz Contreras wander into a conference room on the 26th floor of the Sony building in midtown Manhattan, shepherded by helpful Columbia Records publicity people and looking just slightly dazed. The last time I’d seen them was last […]
Despite their name, the Legendary Shack Shakers aren’t particularly legendary, at least not yet — but the growing infamy of their live shows threatens to change all that. The Shack Shakers’ particular brand of bone-rattling, rafter-rumbling roadhouse rock mixes blues, […]
It’s Friday evening in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and Cave Catt Sammy is heating up. Two little girls have been dancing and twirling since the soundcheck. Adults tap their toes as they eat dinner or dance in front of the bar. […]
Verlon Thompson has never been much for ladder-climbing. An Okie in Nashville, somewhere along the way he thought he’d be a big-deal recording artist. Somewhere further along the way he thought otherwise, and that’s the way he still thinks. Thompson […]
In a closer-to-perfect world, Vic Chesnutt would be played on the radio, and it would happen not because of committee calculations but as a result of free-willed DJ across the country independently choosing to air his finicky, endearing art-folk. In […]
The cover photograph shows Elvis with light-brown hair, circa 1956. That, says Bobbie Ann Mason, is “the Elvis we all want to remember.” And Mason helps us remember. She is a southerner, an Elvis fan since her teens, a writer […]
For a lot of visitors to the northern Mississippi hill country, more than a man, and more than a musician, passed when Otha Turner died on February 27 at age 94. Mr. Otha — and he was known, respectfully, as […]
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