It’s often said that Ray Charles’ great innovation was to sing the blues with the fevered rhythms and fervent vocals of black gospel music. His fusion of juke joint and church on “Hallelujah, I Love Her So”, “What’d I Say” […]
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I WANT MY AMERICANA TV: There’s good news and bad news for fans of the Americana music channel on the MUSIC CHOICE cable TV service. At the beginning of July, Music Choice altered its lineup and, citing low Arbitron numbers, […]
It was already at the top end of any even half-considered list of most important television musical broadcasts of the rock ‘n’ roll era. The new “deluxe” 3-DVD release of Elvis Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special from BMG/Graceland can only further […]
We are well aware that few of you come to these pages seeking a dialogue on politics, that we are one of the rare publications fortunate enough to have an audience which holds passionately to diverse views. Even in this, […]
1 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (Interscope) 2 Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch) 3 Los Lobos, The Ride (Hollywood) 4 Los Lonely Boys, self-titled (Or) 5 Modest Mouse, Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic) 6 Jay […]
“Maybe the music would have won the war.” — In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason Buddy Miller can feel the migraine coming on, and he keeps apologizing for it. “I’m not a very good interview subject normally, but I’m even worse […]
ROMAN TIMES Back during the comparatively benevolent days of the first Bush’s administration, Camper Van Beethoven never used to like to talk about politics. Then at the height of their popularity (though the band didn’t know it at the time), […]
It hasn’t all worked out for Cowboy Jack Clement. Back in the 1970s, he lost a healthy life’s savings producing an obscure horror movie called Dear Dead Delilah. He helped launch the career of mondo-successful country artist Don Williams but […]
First impressions, our parents tried to teach us, are hard currency in this world. So, too, in the world of music. Who, we wonder, is behind this voice or that lyric? Would we like the artist as a person? In […]
So, OK, here’s how it happened. Jason Ringenberg is on a train traveling through central Germany. It’s not unusual that he should be here; he’s in the middle of one of five tours of Europe he’ll make in support of […]
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