It may still happen that the man whom Dave Van Ronk calls, with perfect justification, “Bobby” Dylan will visit us with the second volume of his Chronicles later this year, and it is possible that it will contain more details […]
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A little of what you’ll find on Picaresque, the new album from the Decemberists: a palanquin, an elephant, a king and concubine, the baron and baroness, a phalanx on camel back, a coach-and-fours, the wives of the King of Moors, […]
Like a lot of music-crazed friends of mine have done over the years, he showed up just a little bit late, because he was curious to hear — no, needed to hear — that new album by Shooter Jennings, Waylon’s […]
Under the colorful moniker Captain Midnight, Roger Schutt was a kingpin of Nashville country radio in the late 1960s and early ’70s as well as an advocate for that era’s Outlaw movement. He died February 8 at age 73. The […]
Jalan Crossland stands picking his Gibson acoustic and stomping out a beat against the stage at the Beartree Tavern in Centennial, Wyoming. One hand flails the strings and taps rhythm above the sound hole, while the other moves up and […]
I’m floating through an outmoded Chicago newspaper database that gets used these days about as frequently as rotary phones, looking for bits and pieces about one of the Windy City’s favorite singing and songwriting sons. The keywords “John Prine” bring […]
You might call Kelly Pardekooper’s Haymaker Heart the musical equivalent of a midlife crisis. Not only does his fourth album represent the most creative stretch of his career, its release caps a tumultuous year for the 37-year-old Iowan. Over the […]
They still call it the chitlin circuit, albeit with a little self-conscious irony now, the loose network of mostly African-American venues throughout the south and midwest where Little Milton Campbell has been plying his trade since the Sun Records days. […]
Martha Wainwright has only been famous for about six weeks, but so far she’s not particularly enjoying it. Touring without her band has meant a lot of sitting in restaurants alone, something she watched her father, Loudon Wainwright III, do […]
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