Two sets of hard facts have converged in 2005 — with some sweet, surprising results worthy of a country song. First, it was a little over two years ago that June Carter Cash passed away so unexpectedly. Second, it’s been […]
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A few weeks before my most recent conversation with Charlie Sexton, my daughters were flipping through some family photos and found a real howler. Some guy in his early 20s with wild, bushy hair, a wisp of a beard, wearing […]
Sometime soon, David Rodriguez will be doing something he’s done before: open for Lucinda Williams. But it’ll be different than the last times he’s done it. For one thing, it won’t be at emmajoe’s, the legendary Austin club where not […]
The term “singer-songwriter” often brings to mind a lonely troubadour couching dour introspection in plaintive balladry. In the case of Denison Witmer, however, a pervasive optimism shines through, musically and lyrically, in even his quietest songs. Are You A Dreamer?, […]
“Is she still bitter?” That’s what the good ol’ boy guitar picker asked me after I told him I’d just visited with Eliza Gilkyson. “Not as far as I could tell,” I gently replied. “In fact, she’s at the top […]
On this particular spring evening, the farthest-flung outpost of the British Empire happens to be in Austin, Texas. Specifically, a joint on South Lamar sandwiched between an auto repair shop and a Salvation Army retail store. As bastions of empire […]
Singer-songwriter James Blunt was born, raised and educated in England. And his debut album, Back To Bedlam (out domestically on September 20, via Atlantic), has done quite well for the 28-year-old in the U.K., sailing all the way to #1 […]
If JC Hopkins had released Underneath A Brooklyn Moon ten years ago, he would have risked being lazily categorized with the last decade’s slick swing revival. It’s a fate he’s happy to have missed. “I feel nothing in common with […]
As our phone interview takes place, Paul Knowles is in the passenger seat of a car that’s somewhere between Collinsville, Illinois, where he’s just visited his daughter and granddaughter, and Athens, Georgia, home of the next night’s gig. Behind the […]
When his most ambitious record — a lengthy country music song-cycle into which he poured all of his heart and his soul — found critical acclaim but only a handful of buyers, Marty Stuart took the turn of the millennium […]
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