The soul of the world shrank a bit on November 24, when southern fiction author Larry Brown passed away. He died of a heart attack in his sleep. He was only 53, and left behind his wife, three children, and […]
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are renowned for close harmony singing, and rightly so. But on this southern-hemisphere spring night, as they started singing their first encore at an old theater in the mineral spa mountain region of Victoria, they […]
Those all-star, jam-session finales at concerts almost never move me. I mean, unless you have Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson tensely sharing the same microphone, you’re far more likely to achieve “The Last Schmaltz” at such gatherings. Yet […]
It was, in a way, appropriate that Por Vida: Benefit For Life, the all-star kickoff fundraiser for Alejandro Escovedo and the Alejandro Fund, occurred a couple of days after the Day of the Dead. Held on November 1 and 2, […]
As big a star as Lefty Frizzell was in his 1950s heyday, and as big a honky-tonk hero as he was to Merle Haggard, he was a little too mellow to cast as large a shadow on subsequent trailblazers as […]
First you trap the possum. From what we know of Loretta Lynn’s early life, it’s no surprise to find a possum recipe, here, accompanied by a tale of how her mother would set a possum trap once a week. First, […]
The son of Doris Day, Terry Melcher made a name for himself in Los Angeles’ 1960s music scene. He went from doing surf music to producing the Byrds’ classic recordings. Among the other acts he worked with were Paul Revere […]
The Grant Street Dancehall in Lafayette, Louisiana, officially opened its doors with a big Fourth of July party in 1980. Headlining was Clifton Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band, the group that was to zydeco what the Muddy Waters […]
The notion of music saving a person’s life gets bandied about often enough to qualify as a cliche. But in the case of Raycharles Jack LaMontagne, it carries a weight that is at once chilling and inspirational. Born in New […]
What grabs your ears right off the bat upon popping in I Just Want To Be Held, the new album by Detroit R&B legend Nathaniel Mayer, is his voice. The timbre is raw, glottal, suggesting an instrument that should have […]
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