Jessi Colter has always stood on the edge. She and her late husband Waylon Jennings, along with Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser, carried country music in new directions in 1976 with the album Wanted! The Outlaws, the first country album […]
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In the now-infamous country anthem of loss (whose words regrettably ring truer with each passing year) “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes,” George Jones warbles about those singers who “tear your heart out when they sing” like one in particular, “the outlaw […]
At 75 years old, Bob Dylan continues to hit new heights, continuously refining his abilities, his career, and journalists’ expectations of the folk bard. He’s been a roots singer, an activist, a novelist, and now — more than ever — a standards singer. Triplicate, reviewed by […]
Forget everything you know about Jessi Colter: widow of Waylon, mother of Shooter, “I’m Not Lisa.” Forget everything you know about Christian music—traditional hymns, southern gospel, spiritual sing-alongs, contemporary pop-rock, whatever. Now, think to yourself, What Would Patti Do? Patti […]
As winter rolls into spring—and winter has often felt more like spring this year here in Chicago—publishers cultivate a new crop of books, sending the fruits of the authors’ long labors into the arms of readers waiting for the lush, […]
As another chapter opens in this book of life, I’m looking for new surprises, new plot twists, meeting new characters, and also some level of comfort, love, and joy. As someone who writes about books for a living, I’m expecting […]
Another fall publishing season has come and gone, and the last two columns have listed a few memorable books. For the past few weeks, publishers have been announcing their spring books. There are a few interesting memoirs — Jessi Colter weighs […]
Waylon Jennings passed away over a decade ago, yet his presence seems to be felt more than ever these days as a younger generation of artists embrace his legacy. Maybe this is in rebellion against the debauched landscape of pop […]
File this one under, “Well It’s About Damned Time.” With its eighteen cuts, this collection arrives, unmistakably, as one of the more important and plain necessary releases of the year. But for the handful of Colter cuts on the famous/infamous […]
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