I love some colorful charcters and have been blessed to know so many in last 38 years. It is what makes the world go round if you ask me. One of these guys was a fellow by the name of […]
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Michael Timmins sees the newest Cowboy Junkies album, Notes Falling Slow, as “a nice stepping stone to whatever our next recording project will be.” The four-disc Notes Falling Slow, released in October, follows 2012’s wonderful five-disc box set, The Nomad […]
As a very small girl, Kimmie Rhodes was taught to sing by her dad, which sounds like a normal, sweet interaction between a father and a daughter doesn’t it? For Kimmie, it was different. Her father had been orphaned during […]
Is a taste of honey worse than none at all? Drug addicts who’ve bottomed out would probably tell you it is — that whatever summits they ascended have long since been buried under the ruins of so many squandered years, […]
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 […]
In 1960, Willie Nelson famously drove into Nashville in his broken-down 1950 Buick, looking to sell his songs to the city’s top music producers. Not long after he got to Music Row, his car died. After a few days in […]
Oddly enough, there hasn’t been a career-spanning, cross-label set of Waylon’s music until now, let alone one that’s well-conceived, carefully selected, and well-documented. The four-disc Nashville Rebel box is all of that. The set’s lavish, photo-filled book provides sweet musical […]
Is there a song in the country canon more misunderstood than “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?” Popularly read as bemoaning the distance between modern country music and its antecedents — as, to use one critic’s phrase, a […]
When released in 1976, Waylon Live instantly joined the short list of great country concert recordings, alongside Hank Thompson’s At the Golden Nugget, Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison, Charley Pride’s In Person (Live At Panther Hall), and not very many […]
Release of this glance at the formative years of Waylon Jennings’ career was slated well before anyone knew the disc would arrive just after the sad news of his passing. The timing only makes hearing these sides, recorded for a […]
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