In February, new peer acclaim may well be extended to Jinx Jones. The California-based singer/guitarist, a popular fixture at Viva Las Vegas, has been nominated for Rockabilly, Male in the 2015 Ameripolitan Awards. Competition will be stern. Also nominated in […]
Chuck Berry fanatics, your ship has come in, and it’s the Queen Mary — or maybe we should call it the Queen Maybellene. As you’d expect from the Bear Family label, which specializes in gargantuan reissues, this 16-CD, 396-song box […]
Ernest Tubb’s son Justin was a 20-year-old country singer in 1955, and unimpressed by the nascent sounds of rock ‘n’ roll. Even so, as a songwriter he had an ear for a great lyric no matter the style. Hearing one […]
