As the lead singer of the Cass County Boys, Jerry Scoggins struck gold late in his career singing “The Ballad Of Jed Clampett” for the TV show Beverly Hillbillies. Scoggins died December 7 at age 93. Nashville songwriter Mack Vickery […]
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On my way to interview Josh Rouse, with his songs murmuring in my iPod, I wondered how best to ask the question that was really bothering me: Does this still matter? Not “this” as in Josh Rouse, per se, or […]
The Louisiana Hayride was, of course, the loose-as-a-goose on-radio barndance out of Shreveport that played a key role in the careers of Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, George Jones, and numerous other untameables. It was the edgier […]
The sight of Gary Louris’ beloved Gibson SG guitar sitting on the stage of the 400 Bar in Minneapolis before a scheduled New Year’s Eve solo show by Mark Olson, his former Jayhawks partner, seemed to confirm the rumors of […]
The dawn of 2005 was the dusk of Guided By Voices, the Dayton, Ohio, band that closed the curtains after 21 years of near-stardom and indie-pop statesmanship. A graying, bearish Robert Pollard was the unpredictable ringleader of the band’s final […]
Despite the participants’ teasing threat to get themselves an Aerostar and take the show nationwide, this gathering will most likely go down as a one-time-only event. Collectively billed as “Tres Tangled Truckers” after their respective current projects (Tres Chicas, Sun […]
O irony, where are thou! On January 10, 300 well-heeled Asheville parrotheads paid upwards of $5,000 for the dubious privilege of seeing their guru Jimmy Buffett do a brief set at his newly-opened Cheeseburger In Paradise restaurant. Across town three […]
Ray LaMontagne was whispering. He was between songs, telling a story about a coffee shop he likes in Los Angeles and this woman he saw there who inspired a new song. The riveted audience members were literally on the edges […]
Given identical tools — two hands, one voice and one acoustic guitar — it’s hard to conjure a pair of performers less alike than Kristin Hersh and Ben Weaver. She’s an alt-rock survivor with a girlish lilt who thrums urgent […]
With costumes designed by daughter Jamie, nasty guitar work by son Gabe, acting and dancing by husband Joe Gracey, and a flawless lyrical performance by Kimmie Rhodes, the world premier of Windblown left little doubt as to the pool of […]
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