Louisiana musician EDWIN DUHON, a co-founder of long-running Cajun band the Hackberry Ramblers, died February 26 at age 95. Duhon and fiddler Luderin Darbone formed the Ramblers in 1933 and continued performing for the next seven decades.
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Among the thousand-plus bands in Austin for this year’s South By Southwest festival in Austin were the Mammals, who performed at one of the many ill-equipped Sixth Street pubs hijacked by SXSW every mid-March. A string band at the core, […]
CHARLIE HODGE, best known as a backup singer and guitar player with Elvis Presley, died March 3. He was 71.
Outsider artist Rueben Aaron (R.A.) Miller died March 7 in Commerce, Georgia. He was 93.
Even understanding and accepting that such books exist largely to frustrate the critics whose opinions werent polled, um, no. You dont have to hear all these. 1001 Albums segregates its choices by decade, accompanying most with album artwork and an […]
During his sold-out solo show at the University of Iowa, Jeff Tweedy took droll delight in mocking his public persona. In the middle of a new song called “Is That The Thanks I Get?”, which he’d written for soul legend […]
The fact was, longer-time residents confirm, Van Morrison had never played Nashville before this night, ever, not in 40 years of appearing around the globe. The fact that he was touring behind his new Pay The Devil album — full, […]
Except for Redd Volkaert, “honky tonk” was a misnomer for this furious, wound-up-like-a-nine-day-clock rock ‘n’ roll package show. As each act wiped the sweat away, the question came to mind: “How will the headliner ever top this?” Early on, thunderstorms […]
Bobby Osborne, the lead-singing, mandolin-picking half of the Osborne Brothers, had already cut two solo albums in the five years before Sonny Osborne’s 2005 retirement put the duo into the history books, so his new one (Try A Little Kindness, […]
Take away the history and the presence, and it definitely looks rote on paper. You know, focus on the career high points, play a couple from the latest record, let the band have the spotlight for a few minutes, and […]
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