Although vinyl LP sales hit a 28-year high in 2016, tallying $416 million in sales. CD sales, while still much larger, decayed as digital downloads, and then streaming, displaced physical media. Vinyl has spread from independent record stores to major retailers, from […]
Wynn Stewart, supremely talented founding father of the Bakersfield Sound — surely the most important twang trend from outside of Nashville after bluegrass and rockabilly — had become a nearly forgotten historical figure, a Dale Watson salute-to-the-greats stumper question, with […]
A misleadingly little-known figure from the West Coast country scene of the 1950s and 60s, Stewart first came to my attention via his 1959 hit Wishful Thinking included on Rhino Records indispensable Hillbilly Fever series. That song is the first […]
