Though he recorded 45 albums after, John Stewart is mostly remembered for the seven years he spent with the Kingston Trio (1961-67) and for writing the Monkees’ hit “Daydream Believer”. He died of a brain aneurysm or a massive stroke […]
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Silos bassist and multi-instrumentalist DREW GLACKIN died January 5 of heart damage caused by an overactive thyroid. Glackin had also played and recorded with Tandy, Crash Test Dummies, the Hold Steady and others. He was 45.
Bluegrass fiddler and mandolinist VERNON DERRICK died January 4. He played with Jimmy Martin, the Stanley Brothers, and Hank Williams Jr. He was 74.
Bloomington, Indiana, bassist EVAN FARRELL, who played in Rogue Wave, Japonize Elephants, and on the most recent Magnolia Electric Co. tour, died in a house fire December 23 in Oakland, California. He apparently woke the rest of the house up […]
Tejano legend LYDIA MENDOZA died December 20. She recorded a handful of influential sides for Okeh in 1928, and over 50 albums altogether. She is perhaps best known for her 1934 hit “Mal Hombre”. Mendoza was 91.
Jazz saxophonist FRANK MORGAN died of colon cancer December 14. He was 73.
J.D. “CAST” KING, whose 2005 country album Saw Mill Man won substantial acclaim, died December 13 in Old Sand Mountain, Alabama. He was 81.
“…as I was writing the song, it became clear to me how significant these certain memories were. I didn’t know it until the words came out. I cried a lot, and by the end I realized they were moments in […]
It’s a question that no doubt has been following him ever since his first gig at age 15, so there’s no sense dancing around it: In the roots music world, what are the advantages and disadvantages of being Stacey Earle’s […]
It wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate just to strike “Industry” from this book’s subtitle. That’s because Diane Pecknold’s The Selling Sound argues that “the rise of country music” and “the rise of the country music industry” are, if not identical phenomena, […]
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