“I’m not good at multi-tasking,” Jill Sobule insists. “I’m like, one thing at a time. I’m just not used to it! I’ve got to get my organizational skills down better, that’s what it is.” Despite her contention, Sobule is more […]
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There was a time, oh, three-plus decades ago, when John Fogerty was making his mark like few rock artists could ever imagine. With Creedence Clearwater Revival, especially over a startlingly successful two-year burst beginning that saw the release of three […]
Moviola is an Americana band, but they won’t likely be coming to your town in the next few months. As all five members (soon to be four, but more on that later) are married, hold down day jobs and raise […]
84-year-old Wallace Horn slips on his earphones and swivels his well-worn chair toward a bank of meters and dials. As the band runs through “Little Old Log Cabin” and “He Will Set Your Fields On Fire”, he tweaks the levels […]
There’s a cinematic quality to Dust Bowl Revival, the debut album from Ox, so it’s no surprise that singer-guitarist Mark Browning was obsessed with movies during the recording process. Given the album’s title, one might guess that the sandy-haired 34-year-old […]
IN 1965, Robyn Hitchcock, age 12, became infatuated with the literature of science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells. Duly inspired by such classics as The Invisible Man, The War Of The Worlds, and particularly The Time Machine, the British adolescent set […]
The last notes of “You Are My Sunshine” hang in the piney air like beads of dew on a spiderweb. Out of the corner of my eye I see my new pal Jenna wipe her cheek. Since our acquaintance is […]
When Laurie Stirratt launched her new life in 2002, it was like going home. Chicago welcomed her like a prodigal daughter, she got a job at the Hideout (a favorite watering hole among Chicago music scenesters), and she began writing […]
The Zimmer twins are best known within the music industry for their long involvement with the now-defunct trade magazine Gavin Report (where the Americana radio chart began). They have also ghost-written autobiographies by Sonny Barger (the legendary Hell’s Angel) and […]
Sam Phillips famously said after hearing Howlin’ Wolf’s music, “This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.” Yet, for all his acclaim, this is the first comprehensive biography of the man who looms large — […]
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