One of the high points of this year’s South By Southwest festival was the second live performance by the New Orleans Social Club. Last October, a number of New Orleans’ musicians-in-exile met in Austin to record Sing Me Back Home, […]
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Alejandro Escovedo no longer takes anything for granted. Always a courtly gentleman with a soft-spoken manner, he begins the interview by asking, “How are you?” Fine, Al, great. Couldn’t be better. And you? How are you feeling? “I’m doin’ very […]
Though the Blind Corn Liquor Pickers — four Kentucky natives who play mandolin, guitar, banjo and upright bass — fleetingly give the appearance of a traditional bluegrass band, the illusion is shattered as soon as they launch into the Talking […]
Every serious Roger Miller fan will want to read this book, and every one of them will be frustrated. Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is only what its subtitle says: a series of interview transcriptions done by Lyle Style who, after […]
To the country intelligentsia, Buck Owens’ joyous iconoclasm made him a pivotal figure. His twangy, streamlined Bakersfield honky-tonk gave him 26 top-10 hits on the Billboard country chart; 21 of them went to #1, including 15 between 1963 and 1967. […]
Dwight Yoakam’s personal friendship with Buck Owens began Wednesday, September 23, 1987. Yoakam was in Bakersfield to play the Kern County Fair that night, and Reprise Records arranged a meeting at Buck’s offices. That night, Buck surprised everyone by appearing […]
“You can’t continue to do the same songbook over and over. You have to innovate. I always felt that’s what I wanted to do — that and create a signature style or sound no one can say is derivative.” Cassandra […]
“From the beginning, I’ve always tried to find the balance between making the things I was hearing in my head happen while at the same time not being too much of a control freak.” Head-scratching critics who enjoying quibbling about […]
“You live in a jungle, you better be ready to die. Somebody like me may shave your ass dry.” “Monkey & Baboon,” by Mac Rebennack & George Landry, from Creole Moon “There is no finer ambassador for New Orleans than […]
“If we took a year off, a real honest to God year off, it’d drive us all insane. We’d all be dead by the end of it. The five of us have done this because it’s cathartic, and it’s a […]
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