Sure enough, he’s a rambler and a gambler and a sweet talkin’ ladies man. Well, Hayes Carll is a musician, and from Texas, so all that goes more or less with the territory, at least by tradition. But he is […]
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The year must have been 1991, the Gulf War was on, and Billy Bragg was giving a concert at Washington University in St. Louis. I was studying English literature but spent most of my time on a campus campaign against […]
FLATT’S TOP GUITAR: Husband-and-wife country greats Marty Stuart and Connie Smith were joined by Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Eddie Stubbs and Harry Stinson in mid-February to help welcome Lester Flatt’s historic Martin guitar into the Country Music Hall […]
Hope Nunnery has a name, a voice and a story that all seem in their own ways too good to be true. At least until you hear her talk about them. Then, like the songs on her first album, Wilderness […]
Call it the Lambchop conundrum, or perhaps the Willard Grant Conspiracy conspiracy. In bands with a large membership, oftentimes the music actually feels less cluttered than that of smaller outfits. The more players, the more room to maneuver; that has […]
There may be no more impenetrable roadblock to the enjoyment and evaluation of music (and art generally) than the matter of taste. Yet while it’s always lurking about even when it goes unmentioned — call it the Taste Card — […]
Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes owes a hefty aesthetic debt to Oklahoma. Not the actual state, but the landmark 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. When Pecknold was young, musicals taught him to sing out and feel at ease onstage. “Doing […]
Quotation: “I try to not be too conscious of creating music. I just try to let it be. That’s what makes great music, I think.” –Dan Tyminski Dan Tyminski doesn’t do what’s expected of him. After the amazing success of […]
Where to begin, this ending? With the thing that has always mattered most: The music. In the spring of 1998, the fourteenth edition of this magazine proclaimed Alejandro Escovedo to be Artist Of The Decade. It was a puckish thing […]
It is difficult to imagine any man three months shy of his 95th birthday looking more regally insouciant than Pinetop Perkins does from his backstage perch at an out-of-the-way roadside joint known as Circle B Recreation in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. You’d […]
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