Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is often called the Mother Church of Country Music. Tonight’s congregants include J.D. Crowe, Don Rigsby, Hazel Dickens, and Bryan Sutton, all gathering in late September to celebrate the release of Bradley Walker’s debut disc Highway Of […]
Having carefully avoided video overexposure for more than a dozen years, the proprietors of Chicago’s in-surgery country/indo-rock monolith Bloodshot have just let loose a very well-packed DVD, Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records’ Life In The Trenches. (With its performances by […]
The ailing orphans and shifty merchants of Charles Dickens. Sluts named Heather and dumb jock boyfriends, sliced to ribbons apres premarital sex in horror movies. Archetypal characters are a staple of the arts: Remember the classic villain-damsel-hero “you must pay […]
Mucklewain was billed as a Southern American Rock Festival, and it had the sprawling, lively, and Tennessee-heavy roster to back up all parts of that claim. But it may have been three guys from way the hell up north that […]
Born September 14, 1934, in the small west Texas town of Brownfield, and raised in nearby Lamesa, Don Walser was just 11 years old when his mother passed away. As he told it, his widowed father had to work nights […]
Revered dobro player Josh Graves died September 30. An IBMA Hall of Honor inductee, Uncle Josh (born Burkett H. Graves) is best known for his long tenure with Flatt & Scruggs’ Foggy Mountain Boys, and as the principal architect of […]
THE PLAYER’S THE THING: The INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION held its annual “World of Bluegrass” week September 25 through October 1 in Nashville, its second year in Music City after many years in Kentucky. The series of panel discussions, performances, […]
Everything I really need to know about Johnny Cash can be found among his records and in the steady, proud gaze with which he greeted the camera. I don’t doubt that he was also a difficult, troubled, troubling man; that, […]
Hacienda howdy-do: Please excuse our Gaffney gaffe First of all, as the drummer for the Hacienda Brothers, I just want to thank you for all the support you’ve given to our band and our music. I’ve been a No Depression […]
Before 2006, it was a stumper: What performer, raised hanging out in places such as Louis Armstrong’s house, has sung with Rosanne Cash, David Bowie, Al Green, Steely Dan and Dolly Parton? (You’ve got to love that resume.) New York […]
