Country’s strange truths and unresolved mysteries still make it compelling music. Could George have actually kidnapped Tammy? Would you believe Crystal Gayle comes from the same genetic pool as Loretta Lynn? The latter, at least, we know to be true. […]
Like Barry Bonds’ home run record, Billy Joe Shaver’s Greatest Hits should come with an asterisk and fine print, this one explaining that these are more recent recordings of much older original material. The album is packed with beer-joint-quality reprises […]
Maybe if they hadn’t taken a pass on “Bye Bye Love”, they’d be the household names, not the Everly Brothers, who they often resembled. Raised in Cajun country on an island just off of Louisiana and, like the Everlys, first […]
In album-not-cruise liner wrote-notes jammy-crammied with more arch than six Roman aqueducts and a 15th century European church (Claire knows her naves from her knaves), Les Honky More Tonkies like a dyslexic podiatry fetishist get off on the wrong foot […]
