Skip Battin, who played bass with several pioneering country-rock bands in the 1960s and ’70s, including the late-period Byrds and the New Riders Of The Purple Sage, died July 6 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 69.
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Kasey Chambers unassumingly takes the stage wearing a blue rancher shirt and cowgirl hat. She surveys the crowd and breaks a modest smile, then bows her head to strap on an acoustic guitar. Her lips tighten as the opening electric […]
When Alejandro Escovedo was hospitalized in April to treat complications caused by Hepatitis C, it was difficult to imagine any good coming out of the grim situation. While Escovedo’s health remains tenuous and his finances insecure — he has no […]
Since Pete Droge lives just outside Seattle, the Thorns’ Showbox gig felt like something of a homecoming. “It’s nice to be back in the correct time zone,” he joked after the band played “Runaway Feeling” from the recent self-titled debut […]
On this night, Martin Stephenson didn’t choose to play his lovely song “We Are Storm” from 1990’s Pete Anderson-produced (and recently reissued) Salutation Road, but it would have fit. Courtesy of the format for this house concert, which found the […]
The boomtown days of Woody Guthrie’s birthplace are long gone. Okemah is a sleepy — one might say depressed — little town in the Oklahoma hills, situated on an industrial park in Okfuskee County. It’s hard to imagine that Broadway, […]
“Drive carefully tonight,” Jason Ringenberg said on the opening night of the seventh annual Twangfest. “You don’t want to accidentally run over an alt-country legend.” Ringenberg needn’t have worried. The vast majority of artists taking part this year were there […]
Though Elvis Presley’s transformation from unknown Southerner to eternal icon is endlessly fascinating, the story of his manager, “Colonel” Tom Parker (the title was honorary), is at least as intriguing. While Presley’s metamorphosis was played out in the public eye, […]
Shake Patrick Park’s hand and you’ll likely notice his most peculiar feature — claws. You might not feel them, per se — two years of wearing them has perhaps taught the Los Angeles musician a thing or two about finesse […]
If the story of My Morning Jacket’s rise to the middle seems familiar, it’s because you’ve been hearing it, with other bands’ names attached, for years: Five polite young men of occasionally suspicious hygiene, ignored by the hometown hipsters, make […]
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