“…I take direction, I don’t take dictation. And it’s not for any reason other than that I just feel like I know what I’m doing better than anybody else knows what I’m doing.” On the back of the Charlie Daniels […]
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It’s hard to say when I met Dan Bentele; surely it was in the mid-’90s, at Twangfest I or II in St. Louis, or perhaps it was before that after all. We might have met at that first Wilco show […]
“The worst thing for an artist to have done to you,” Amos Lee submits, “is to be tagged as something, or not something. Or for a human being to be, for that matter — unless you want to do it […]
1 Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek) 2 Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (Saddle Creek) 3 Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge) 4 Ani DiFranco, Knuckle Down (Righteous Babe) 5 Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love (Rounder) 6 […]
Beyond borders: “There is diversity in country music” I wanted to write and thank you for exposing me to the variety of music and of political perspectives in this magazine. I have become a big fan of bluegrass via Alison […]
Late the night the mojo wire brought word of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s body, I finished off a bottle of pretty average single malt. Finished, which is to say drained the last glass from a liter that had been in […]
An aging adage still seems to be true, despite all the hot technology tossed at current DVD releases: The harder the band rocks, the tougher it is to squeeze them down onto a TV screen. The Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty […]
HAWKS AND SMOG: Earlier this year, Gary Louris told a reporter the JAYHAWKS were calling it quits, but now it seems the retirement might just be an extended hiatus while other projects are pursued. Louris has been keeping quite busy; […]
For a time in the 1970s, it seemed Sammi Smith might join her friends Waylon and Willie in the Outlaw ranks and become one of the few females of the clan. Tragically, it never quite happened. Jewel Fay Smith’s family […]
Let me tell you about a song I love. It begins with a banjo. Then comes a high, winsome wail singing, “To see you coming round the bend/I just can’t think of anything that can make me smile like you […]
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