Everything I know about country music, I learned from Heather’s Li’l Country Calendar. Well, darned near. For instance, not until I acquired my first did I know that on March 16, 1974, Roy Acuff showed Richard Nixon how to yo-yo […]
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“You’re gonna have to speak up some, and slow down,” intoned the craggy drawl that came over the line. “I don’t hear so good.” The voice belonged to Cast King, the singer, songwriter, and player of guitar, mandolin, and fiddle […]
History has not been particularly kind to Bobby Bare, at least so far, and in some ways this is hard to figure. After all, he stayed on the country charts from the early 1960s to the mid-’80s, a great run […]
Whatever it is, there you are A couple of letter-writers have chimed in to tell us they missed the old “alternative country (whatever that is)” tagline we finally decided to part with in September on the occasion of our tenth […]
1 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise) 2 My Morning Jacket, Z (ATO) 3 Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights (Lost Highway) 4 Iron & Wine/Calexico, In The Reins EP (Overcoat) 5 Bob Dylan, No Direction Home: The Soundtrack […]
New Orleans: Pointing the way Thank you for your coverage about New Orleans. You definitely got the right people to comment as Mike West, Lynn Drury and Grayson Capps are all charter members of the local musician community who have […]
Although optimism is hardly my forte, we planted an orchard this fall. Not where our pond was, up the hill — that dirt will take some work and time before it’ll grow much but dead leaves — but out back […]
Wings For Wheels, Thom Zimmy’s “making of” documentary DVD bundled with Columbia’s 30th anniversary boxed edition of Springsteen’s Born To Run, has its moments: Bruce and the original LP’s producer, Jon Landau, taking brand new listens to forgotten takes buried […]
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: Now that PETER GURALNICK’S long-awaited biography, Dream Boogie: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke, takes its place alongside the author’s definitive writing on the lives of Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke and others, the obvious question is: What’s […]
Two heavily-strummed D chords and an E opened Link Wray’s 1958 hit instrumental “Rumble”, which had a total of four chords but inspired guitarists of that era and all that followed. When he died at his home in Denmark November […]
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