This issue’s Screen Door piece on the reopening of Houston’s venerable Cactus Records store got me to thinking about a lot of the other record stores that have meant something to me at one point or another over the past […]
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Since the coming in the mid-’80s of regular cablecasts of parts of the weekly shows, it’s been more commonplace to see stars old and new in video performances from the Grand Ole Opry. Before that, it was a special, limited […]
IT’S A FRAME ABOUT RAY: Longtime Ray Charles saxophonist David “Fathead” Newman and Charles’ autobiography co-author and friend David Ritz joined Michael Gray of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at the Hall’s “Remembering Ray” discussion on November […]
Former Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg is modern rock’s tenderest songwriter and its thorniest character, a contradiction journalists have been laboring for twenty years to reconcile. That author Jim Walsh, a longtime Minneapolis music journalist with ties to the band (he […]
“How can you sell Porter Wagoner to the kids? Nobody wants to be like Porter Wagoner,” griped an agitated Joe South to Rolling Stone writer Jerry Hopkins in 1969, amid a diatribe against the country music of that era. South, […]
Macon Greyson was born in the Wylie Lama’s head in late 1999. “We were finishing the first record, which Ray Wylie Hubbard produced, but I didn’t have a band or anything,” says frontman Buddy Huffman. “I wanted an album I […]
I’ve never met Malcolm Holcombe, but he used to call me late at night. The phone would ring in the hours between midnight and 2 a.m., and I wouldn’t pick up. Calls at that hour normally involve romance, intrigue […]
Willie Nelson is known for his distinctive voice, the tone of his rugged Martin guitar named Trigger, and for the harmonica played by that tall lanky guy who imbues his sound with a timeless, rootsy quality. The man playing that […]
“I don’t work like anybody else. OK, let’s put it this way. Until the last part is done, nobody believes it’s going to be a song.” –Otis Taylor Blues might travel best as a form recently arrived and itching to […]
Based on his new self-titled album, you might expect Austin bluesman Seth Walker to have grown up in deepest Texas — sneaking off as a kid to hit the roadhouses and worship at the throne of Albert Collins, Lightnin’ Hopkins […]
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