Even when it’s true, songwriters are often loath to admit they had a template in mind when making an album. For his latest effort, however, David Mead is quick to say he looked to Harry Nilsson’s 1971 classic Nilsson Schmilsson […]
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“Bluegrass now is like rock in the ’70s. It’s produced. It’s predictable.” Bobby Earl Davis sits in a San Francisco coffee shop, his right shoulder cocked and hunched. An angular, tense, Picasso blue-period Ralph Stanley, he’ll assume the same posture […]
At this late date in pop music history, it’s probably unrealistic to expect that a respected, prolific indie-rocker would travel to Nashville and enter into the world of the southern baroque. Sure, Bob Dylan did it with Blonde On Blonde […]
You might judge I See Hawks in L.A. by the company they keep. Rick Shea, Dave Alvin’s guitarist for the past half-decade, sits in with the group as often as his schedule permits. Fiddler Brantley Kearns, another regular in Alvin’s […]
Back in 1962, with the soul genre still barely defined, she’d stunned and charmed pop music with the clean, clear emotional weather report “It’s Raining”, one of the tunes Allen Toussaint penned for her alone. Now, 44 years later, her […]
El, El, Bee…El, El, Bee…That was the chant that was bouncing off the walls of downtown Austin one Friday last March. Even though the city was in the full-tilt throes of South By Southwest — the one time of year […]
On an early Wednesday afternoon in April, thick, fat storybook snowflakes fall in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. The snow settles indiscriminately on major thoroughfares and vacant side streets. It falls on a triangulated door rising out of […]
It’s said that first impressions linger. Roman Candle can relate, because the band is in the midst of the most protracted first impression in recent memory. Its excellent debut album, The Wee Hours Revue, was released June 6 on V2 […]
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