EDITOR’S NOTE: With Baz Luhrmann’s new film, Elvis, coming to theaters on June 24, we thought we’d share part of this story from our Winter 2019 “Vision” journal about the annual gathering called “Elvis Week” and the troves of Elvis memorabilia […]
October 20, 1937: Wanda Lavonne Jackson is born in Maud, Oklahoma, almost smack in the middle of the pot of the Panhandle State. From the time she was a little black-haired girl, her musician father encouraged her to sing and […]
Colebrook Road was conceived when guitarist Jesse Eisenbise, a middle school teacher, and his friend Wade Yankey, a consulting engineer, went to see The Steep Canyon Rangers in 2007 or 2008 — as Eisenbise says, “just when they were exploding.” […]
Colebrook Road was conceived when guitarist Jesse Eisenbise, a middle school teacher and his friend Wade Yankey, a consulting engineer, went to see the Steep Canyon Rangers in 2007 or 2008, as Jesse says, “Just when they were exploding.” Soon […]
For a film that only a few thousand people have probably seen to date, Eugene Jarecki’s The King has been receiving an extraordinary amount of press coverage and positive reviews. Formerly titled Promised Land and filmed against the backdrop of the […]
For a film that only a few thousand people have probably seen to date, Eugene Jarecki’s The King has been receiving an extraordinary amount of press coverage and positive reviews. Formerly titled Promised Land and filmed against the backdrop of the […]
Click the album titles for reviews and song samples. Various Artists – At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight. There is no way to overstate the historical sweep and artistic brilliance of this 20-disc, 2-book box set. Raspberries – Pop Art Live. No band […]
Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
This week’s column was going to be the final one of the year that focuses on new and upcoming roots music releases. But as there are more coming out than one column can hold, I’ll do another one in a couple of […]
Bluegrass is wrongfully stereotyped as a traditional music with more than a little hayseed in its ears. Perhaps this stereotype grows out of its early emergence from its own source material, which was then emphasized by its use in television […]
