Bandleader Isidro Lopez, who died in Corpus Christi, Texas, on August 16 at age 75, was to Tejano music what Ray Charles was to soul, or Clifton Chenier to zydeco. Lopez combined two popular genres — in his case, conjunto […]
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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 — […]
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 […]
Sometimes being confronted with a limited number of resources when making an album can be a good thing. Amy Correia is a case in point. Unlike her 2000 full-length debut Carnival Love, which was made with an extravagant budget and […]
As the keyboardist for Nick Lowe’s Impossible Birds and as the opening act on Lowe’s recent swing through the United States, Geraint Watkins has made a strong musical impression. Yet the Welsh native recognizes his name is easy to forget, […]
Some time in the 1970s, while ensconced in the Hotel Graf Zeppelin in Stuttgart, Germany, Carl Perkins peeled off a couple sheets of hotel stationary and wrote his friend, Johnny Cash. “I’m lacking in ability to say what I feel, […]
It’s so succinct and sweet that it goes by in the blink of an eye, the title track of Hem’s new disc, Eveningland. Clocking in at 1 minute and 1 second, it begins with the lonesome drone of a clarinet, […]
If alternative-country has ever had a definitive drummer, it would be Kenneth A. Buttrey. After a long battle with cancer, Buttrey died at his Nashville home on September 12, 2004. He was 59. Buttrey brought the mercury to the thin, […]
To add to the buzzing anticipation of Golden Smog’s first sighting in New York since 1998, the all-star band scheduled not one but two shows at the intimate Bowery Ballroom. Since the group’s inception in the early ’90s, an impressive […]
Bassist William “Lum” York played in Hank Williams’ Driftin’ Cowboys band during the mid-to-late 1940s. Also known for his comic skills, York performed in Lefty Frizzell’s and Marty Robbins’ bands as well. He died on August 15 at age 85. […]
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