The most pointed and personal song on Garrison Starr’s new album Airstreams & Satellites is one that’s not even mentioned in the track listing. It’s a hidden cut, a bare-bones demo called “Inside Out”, that kicks in near the end […]
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Grey DeLisle has a dream: She is performing with Loretta Lynn when Wanda Jackson comes onto the stage. Somehow a plastic “Roy Rogers type guitar from the ’50s” materializes in DeLisle’s hands and her first thought is to find a […]
There was a time in the fall of 2000 when things seemed pretty pointless to the Hang Ups. A year earlier, the Minneapolis pop outfit had released Second Story — its third album overall and first with name producers and […]
“She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.” — Toni Morrison “We have to learn to play with nothing, with […]
Sam Beam makes morning music. Recording under the name Iron & Wine, he’s fashioned a somewhat haphazard yet coherent discography, any assemblage of which can hold its own with a rise-and-shine classic such as Charlie Parker With Strings, or Doc […]
For almost 30 years I have been a participant in, and an observer of, the music business. At one time or another I have touched every aspect of it: songwriting, record production, publishing, contracts, performing rights, publicity, radio promotion, booking, […]
For insight into Jim Bryson’s character, insert his new CD, The North Side Benches, into your computer. A hidden website is revealed with downloadable demos and outtakes — including a peculiar reading of the leadoff track, “Sleeping In Toronto”. While […]
Jon Rauhouse was probably destined to make a rodeo record simply because of where he’s from. He can tell you about growing up across the road from a cottonfield in what is now downtown Tempe, Arizona. And the bronc rider […]
As writer Joe Nick Patoski and I were going back and forth about this issue’s feature story on the Resentments, we got to talking a little bit about Mambo John Treanor, the band’s original drummer and one of the quintessential […]
Not every rock band would stand onstage in a packed club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and sing, “Jesus is the man I’m looking for/So can you tell me just where he’s gone.” But then, not every gospel […]
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