Other than a hiccup of piano and guitar, all that we hear during the opening bars of Shelby Lynne’s sublimely parched remake of Dusty Springfield’s “Just A Little Lovin’” is the 1-2-3 of the cymbal, set off, every other measure, […]
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Can a blueblood go bluegrass? Mike Henderson, the veteran Nashville guitarist/songwriter/bandleader who has explained his style as half Muddy Waters and half Bill Monroe, is tilting toward the latter and making the transition with aplomb. For two decades, Henderson has […]
Proud To Be An Okie is the most important volume of country music history to emerge in years, a worthy companion to Gerald Haslam’s similarly west-coast-centered Working Man Blues from 1999. Drawing upon everything from old fan magazines to the […]
October 8, 2007, was Hank Thompson Day in Texas, officially proclaimed by the governor. Headlining a fair in his birthplace of Waco at 82, Thompson sat on the outdoor stage, electric guitar in his lap. Behind him, the latest incarnation […]
R.I.P.: North Carolina guitarist DAVID ENLOE succumbed to complications from hepatitis C on November 27. He was a member of the Fabulous Knobs, the Woodpeckers, the Woods and the Carneys. He was 51…. Cult songwriter JIM FORD died November 18. […]
PHOTOGRAPHER Jim McGuire from New Jersey, of all places was comparatively new to Nashville when he made his two most indelible images. Both centered around the end times of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium. One, with lightning […]
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