We enter the theater and find it’s become a hall of mirrors, highly polished and meticulously disorienting. As we take our seats, we can’t tell the real from the carefully projected. The lights go down and a softly strummed arpeggio […]
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The Derailers’ first album without Tony Villanueva finds the band in fine form. Co-founder Brian Hofeldt is not as powerful a singer as his former bandmate, but he is a versatile and confident vocalist. Producer Buzz Cason, a member of […]
Where so many alt-country buckaroos convey a holier-than-thou disdain for the country mainstream, the Derailers have always worn their commercial aspirations on their sleeve. Without forsaking the formative twang of Buck Owens on their second album for Lucky Dog, the […]
While there’s still no mistaking the Derailers’ roots in the Bakersfield sound, the Austin honky-tonkers bare their ’60s pop souls more than ever on this follow-up to 1997 major-label debut Reverb Deluxe. The honky-tonk hallmarks are still there — pedal […]
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