Credit the Tex-Mex band Los Pacaminos one thing: There’s no hokey pseudo-biography with fake names and tall tales about growing up in Juarez or San Antonio. The photo on the cover of their self-titled album suggests the truth: A guy […]
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You can’t blame a band for trying to expand its range. The Guthries’ 2000 debut Off Windmill positioned the Halifax group squarely in the alt-country milieu, with comparisons to The Band and the Byrds showing up in the international press. […]
The Contenders would probably always have been too eclectic to attract the masses, but the cocaine-cowboy ethos of the late 1970s must have been an especially inhospitable era for their blend of vocal harmonies, as carefully worked out as a […]
The music is often gentle on this debut release from Eyes Adrift (featuring the Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood on guitar, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic on bass, and Sublime/Long Beach Dub Allstars’ Bud Gough on drums), but there’s also a decided undercurrent […]
Old-time fiddling is the foundation upon which country music was built — at least as far as the Grand Ole Opry is concerned. For the Opry’s first decade, fiddlers and string bands playing hoedowns outnumbered all other types of performers […]
Gail Davies made history in the late 1970s as the first woman in Nashville to produce her own (or anyone’s) records, but that came after her 1978 self-titled debut, originally released on the CBS-distributed Lifesong label. “I had a bad […]
As scholars and philosophers continue to debate the role art should play in a post-September 11 world, Hardpan’s eponymous debut is ample proof that, given the most surreal and bewildering circumstances, a ray of light can still find its way […]
You might not remember much of Exene Cervenka’s post-X output, which hewed toward spoken word albums and obscure one-offs such as the DJ Bonebrake collaboration Auntie Christ, and that might be just as well. Her first record with her new […]
His legacy well-established by the end of the 1960s, Ralph Stanley has resolutely gone about the business of making the kind of living available to a first-generation bluegrass star. Which is to say, working: touring, cutting albums, largely for specialty […]
Hillbilly Idol draws from an abundance of musical styles encircling (albeit at some geographic distance) their Great Lakes home of Cleveland, Ohio. Honky-tonk, western swing, bluegrass, and even polka are woven through the music played by this quintet. More than […]
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