A husband in Europe on business, the children off to school and another long day ahead. She stares blankly out the window bathed in morning sunlight, a glass of white wine in her hand; a vague sense of disappointment pervades. […]
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In the pantheon of soul singers, Candi Staton gets in line behind Aretha Franklin, just like everyone else. But not too far behind. This self-titled, 26-track overview of her earliest solo recordings — cut at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, […]
What do you get when modern texturalists Wayne Horvitz (a keyboardist whose credits include backing free jazz saxist John Zorn and leading Meters-inspired funksters Zony Mash) and Tucker Martine (a rising producer and engineer of innovative means) invite a diverse […]
Sure, the Dollar Store is well-stocked from the country store pedal steel here, fiddle there but this is just good revved-up guitar rock with a twang. Singer-guitarist-songwriter Dean Schla-bowske is a founding Waco Brother; sometime Wacos Alan Doughty on bass […]
Typically, when a band is described as Stonesy, it means theres a certain swagger to the outfits sound and plenty of wiry guitar raunch. However, Asheville, North Carolina, quartet the Choosy Beggars offer a different angle on the Stonesy tag. […]
As bluegrass music has gained popularity in recent years, a couple of trends have emerged. One is to smooth out many of the rough edges and downplay the country aspects of the music, which results in a bunch of bands […]
If the Flatlanders were “more a legend than a band,” Rock City might rightly be described as more a rumor than a legend. Until now, Rock City has been vaguely mentioned as one of the aliases employed by nascent configurations […]
It’s late ’89 or early ’90. I arrive at the Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 45 minutes before the start of a twin bill featuring Philly’s Flight Of Mavis opening for Austin’s the Reivers to find the club […]
The Houston Brothers, it should be clarified, are not from that fair Texas burg, but from Charlotte, North Carolina. Their surname? Thats not Houston either. Its Faircloth. The bands music? Dead-on Houston, or anywhere where theres plenty of room to […]
“Do I look like a loser?” Bob Neuwirth introduces himself amid a fanfare of trumpets (literally) in the opening bars of his 1974 solo debut. A loser, no — but not exactly a winner either, this Sasquatch-sized footnote to American […]
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