If this album of pop standards from Bob Dylan surprises you, then you simply haven’t been paying attention to the man’s career. For more than half a century now, he has delivered almost nothing but surprises—to the point where his […]
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Once, hunters and their tribes and families roamed and thrived through the plains and deep woods of America. Then the white man came, and eventually, after many bloody physical and political battles, came what Johnny Cash called “bitter tears.” I […]
There is always a “sound” that can be attributed to anything from Australia or New Zealand. Whether it’s produced by an American or even recorded in the United States. If the artist is from Down Under there is a flavor, an […]
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all […]
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum opened in Bristol TN/VA last August. The $10.5 million museum was built in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and is a project years in the making for the small town of Bristol which straddles […]
Chris Hickey’s Love Away (Work-fire Recordings) was one of my favorite albums of 2014. I was introduced to Hickey in 1987 with his DIY lo-tech but not lo-fi album Looking for Anything [1] and I’ve been a fan ever since. Love […]
He was one of America’s top-selling male vocalists in 2006, which could reflect an expanded audience from the success of the Walk The Line biopic and/or the dearth of decent contemporary fare. Bear Family, who extensively explored Cash’s Sun and […]
Reissues and repackagings of Johnny Cash’s recordings have multiplied like the biblical miracle of the loaves and fishes since his death in 2003. His inspirational material gets the anthology treatment on this collection of 24 songs recorded between 1957 and […]
Johnny Cash will have been gone three years this September, but not so much that you’d notice. His ghost lingers. Every time you turn around, there he is again…in an album-length goodbye from his daughter Rosanne, in an Oscar-winning major […]
Today Johnny Cash exists in our imagination largely as the young hellion of the 1950s and ’60s, or the grave and wise voice offered on his final American recordings. These recently unearthed tapes — very simply, Johnny Cash accompanying himself […]
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