Through no fault of its own, this one almost got away from us this year. It came out in October, but it’s too good to have let fade away without mention. Please take a look and a listen. In 1957, […]
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In 2010, I attended a show at Seattle’s Crocodile headlined by Kate Tucker, a great-looking singer who makes great-sounding music. She sounded fine that night, but there was a kittenish plasticity about her stage presence that was rather off-putting and […]
After successful tenures at MGM, Decca and MCA, Conway Twitty moved to Elektra in 1981, and subsequently the label’s parent, Warner Brothers. Though he returned to MCA in 1987, the Warner years saw continued success on the country singles and […]
More than a decade before Conway Twitty became one of country music’s most prolific hitmakers, he was a pompadour-wearing rock ‘n’ roller, schooled by Sam Phillips at Sun Studios. Starting with 1958’s chart-topping “It’s Only Make Believe,” Twitty strung together […]
As titles go, Conway Rocks is a lot like, say, Elvis Acts: Because it addresses the least interesting part of the story, its appeal is mostly historical. Conway Twitty, born Harold Jenkins in Helena, Arkansas, was a country fan when […]
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