What a great piece! I’ve also enjoyed the many great comments. I was particularly pleased to see you give “”Elvis Country” it’s due. I agree that it may be the definitive version of “I Really Don’t Want To Know”, I’m […]
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Here a piece I cowrote with Juli Thanki for PopMatters year-end lists. Check ou the article with audio/video links here. For bluegrass fans, 2009 was a great year for music, a bad year for frugality. Though we’re only listing the […]
Well. It’s the final podcast of the year. I decided to sit back one night with a big bottle of iced tea vodka and a cold and just put together some of my favorite tracks of the year for this […]
Here’s the 8 records that I enjoyed the most in 2009 1. Marshall Crenshaw: Jaggedland- Really great to hear Marshall playing with a great band again. Rhythm section of Jim Keltner and Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg really sets Marshall […]
I bought and enjoyed every copy of No Depression but as the years passed and the ‘old time’ thing took over in the wake of the phenomenal and deserved success of Oh Brother Where Art Thou, it wasn’t quite ‘the […]
Dimly reminded that a decade was closing and lists were in order, I proffered my top ten albums here a few weeks back, and moved on. And then I remembered that I’m meant to be producing a specialty show for […]
This was the first track we recorded. We worked at Rich’s apt in Hollywood. It was a while ago so details are a bit sketchy. I had been overworking the song, playing it in a folky, Roger McGuinn-like, Byrdsy drawl. […]
Avett Bros. for $1.99: http://tinyurl.com/ydq2gnp Guy Clark 2002 Sbd: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=283262 Mary Gauthier (opened for Guy that night) Sbd: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=283238 Nice Q&A w/Alejandro from early 2009: http://tinyurl.com/mwzwm4 Eilen Jewell – video star: http://tinyurl.com/yk2byof
As the ’50s turned into the ’60s, rock and roll was without direction. Elvis was still in the Army. Jerry Lee Lewis was, for all intents and purposes, blacklisted. Buddy Holly was dead and Eddie Cochran would be gone within […]
History has shown us time and again that it takes a very potent recipe of events to spawn a movement. More often than not, a mixture of economic, political, and social factors influence the birth of new ideas and practices. […]
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