Former Grand Ole Opry steel guitarist Katz Kobayasi, who also played with such artists as Marty Robbins and Bill Anderson, passed away on February 8 of complications from a stroke. He was 60. Bassist Kyle Tullis got his start in […]
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“Being a singer-songwriter,” says Sam Phillips, “is something I’ve never wanted to be.” At the risk of putting words in her mouth, there’s a parenthetical Phillips might well add to the end of that sentence: “Now more than ever.” The […]
Transport bawdy country blues interpreter Scott Biram back to the early 17th century to meet John Donne and the metaphysical poet might have changed his tune. No man is an island, entire of itself? Watch. “I always had a picture […]
“Tomorrow is Arlington, Virginia, then Shirley, Massachusetts, Pittsfield Mass. — it just goes on and on,” Steve Forbert says during a day off on the Jersey shore. “The last month has been pretty busy. Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Lafayette, Indiana, Champaign, […]
Some days I feel like my shadow’s casting me. Some days the sun don’t shine. — Warren Zevon, “Dirty Life And Times” For two solid weeks, I couldn’t listen to Warren Zevon’s The Wind. “Dirty Life And Times” or “Numb […]
On Saturday morning the local Masonic Lodge’s breakfast tractor chugs through the Pecan Grove, pulling a flatbed trailer and a crew selling coffee and donuts. I’ve been waking up to that tractor every third weekend of September since the beginning […]
The patriarch of bluegrass gospel’s Lewis Family, Pop Lewis of Lincolton, Georgia, died of natural causes on March 23. He was 98. Known as the First Family of Bluegrass Gospel, the Lewis Family were pioneers from the early 1950s on, […]
With their Nightingale Editions series, Zoo Press explores the possibility that contemporary songwriters might also write decent poetry. (Not that that idea has ever worked well before.) Jeff Tweedy’s Adult Head is their first offering, soon to be followed by […]
Warren Zanes is forthright with his intentions in writing about the late British singer Dusty Springfield’s classic 1969 album: “This book is about an experience with a record more than it is about a record,” the former Del Fuegos guitarist […]
Yodeling is the Rodney Dangerfield of singing styles, suffering from a lack of respect and an overabundance of misunderstanding. Bart Plantenga pulls yodeling out of the shadows of musical history for an overdue examination of this centuries-old form of vocal […]
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