Sometimes, for an instant or longer, when the music was just exactly right, it was possible to lose one’s self in the press of great punk rock. Whole seconds might pass in the pulsing crowd, strangers coiled and bruising on […]
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Mando Saenz’s career consists of snakebites and lucky charms. He’s had his breaks, but he’s taken some haymakers on the chin, too. After getting an M.B.A. at Incarnate Word in San Antonio, the native of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, waited […]
Back in the mid-1950s, when Bob Dylan was an aspiring teen rocker, his combo secured a gig performing in the lobby of his hometown’s National Guard Armory, as incidental entertainment for a pro wrestling card. As they raved it up […]
At the Country Music Hall of Fame, they’re letting the problem children back into the fold. A few years ago, hell-raiser Faron Young was inducted, and Waylon Jennings made it even though he’d said quite clearly that he didn’t give […]
Herald Nix isn’t exactly what you would call prolific. The 53-year-old singer’s first two records — a rockabilly EP called One Night Only and a neo-country EP follow-up, The Fugitive Kind — hit the streets when vinyl was still king […]
Some things are not accidents. I had agreed to write a story on the Gourds for this magazine, and so I was in the process of gathering up some of the stuff I didn’t have, which included their previous album […]
We’re clustered around a picnic table in the Power Station, an outbuilding of what used to be the county poorhouse outside Portland, Oregon. Caleb Klauder and Sammy Lind, two Foghorn Stringband members, are here for their regular Tuesday night gig, […]
They have the instrumentation and sound of a bluegrass band. They definitely dress like one, and the four guys sure look comfortable gathered around that one microphone. But there’s an intangible at work, or maybe a specter — the ghost […]
PREFACE: Cool rockin’ Loretta That Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose was the runaway winner in our second annual No Depression critics’ poll comes as no surprise. Though Lynn didn’t receive so much as a nomination from the Country Music Association […]
1 Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti-) 2 Elliott Smith, From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-) 3 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (E-Squared/Artemis) 4 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West) 5 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM) 6 Elvis […]
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