Joe Louis Walker has been to church and back. Roommate Mike Bloomfield’s 1981 death from an accidental overdose shook Walker so thoroughly that the young guitarist went from wallowing with heathens including Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix to soaring to […]
There was a time in musical history when genres were described differently. There was a style of music called Country and Western. It encompassed many substyles under that umbrella term. Styles such as rockabilly,honkytonk,western swing,southern hillbilly along with ballads and […]
I can understand the strategy of much of today’s country artists as they keep going to the well to pull out songs about the same basic lyric subjects, singing in the same commercial drivel, cookie-cutter methods. Hell, it pays the mortgage, […]
