I am fortunate beyond belief that practically every one of the best barbecue restaurants in the world is located in my hometown, Kansas City, Missouri. Now, I’m aware there are people in Memphis, and in North Carolina and Texas, who […]
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am huge, I contain multitudes.) — Walt Whitman (“Song Of Myself”) It says here that Merle Haggard is our greatest living singer and songwriter. Country singer and songwriter, if […]
Four Corners is a single point in America where the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. Pat McLaughlin’s music is similarly a convergence point, where R&B, country, pop, and rock ‘n’ roll conjoin. One of the world’s […]
To succinctly sum up Richmond Fontaine’s watering hole of choice: Lucky’s, isn’t. The band’s co-founders — singer-songwriter Willy Vlautin and bassist Dave Harding — have chosen to meet at what might charitably be called a workingman’s neighborhood joint in the […]
Rodney Hayden has everything it takes to be a mainstream country music star. He’s got neotenous good looks, a beautiful country voice comparable to Mark Chesnutt or George Strait, and he’s got a great story of how he was discovered. […]
We all have skilled friends willing to lend a hand — to fix a computer glitch or check under the hood, that sort of thing. But what if you write songs, and you happen to know some of the biggest […]
Saturday night is a universal thing. So notes Ray Barron, the mandolinist and visionary creator of the Irish band Two Time Polka. He’s an expert on the subject: Two Time Polka is an Irish Cajun band. In fact, it’s Irish […]
Wanda Jackson is in trouble with the law. It was only a matter of time until the gal who’s always done things her own way, going against the rules if necessary, got nabbed. But wait — the cop is smiling…he’s […]
Even if you don’t fully subscribe to Richie Unterberger’s big bang theory — that is, that the collision of folk and rock resulted not only in “folk-rock” but in various mutant strands, including acid rock and country rock — Eight […]
Danny Gatton was not “the world’s greatest unknown guitar player,” although many national magazines and local television stations swore to it. Quite a few people knew exactly who he was. Many professional musicians (especially those with an ear to the […]
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