If you wanted to pick country music’s Best Album of All-Time, you could do a lot worse than to put Waylon Jennings’ Dreaming My Dreams on the short list. It’s hardly surprising, then, that someone would come along to pay […]
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George Jones’ brief stint at United Artists is sometimes cited as a kind of personal golden age for the singer, and it’s easy to see why. He recorded some of his signature hits for the label — “The Race Is […]
Though the cover remains mum on the subject, this single disc collects the entirety of Norma Jean’s 1972 album I Guess That Comes Being Poor and her 1968 LP Body And Mind — and tosses in all but three of […]
Solomon Burke’s trio of recent albums marked one of this new century’s most welcome “comebacks.” His 2006 disc Nashville was the strongest yet, a perfect combination of singer and concept: Producer Buddy Miller helped Burke choose some great old songs, […]
It wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate just to strike “Industry” from this book’s subtitle. That’s because Diane Pecknold’s The Selling Sound argues that “the rise of country music” and “the rise of the country music industry” are, if not identical phenomena, […]
“Ain’t Done Nothin’”, the self-penned kiss-off that begins Lisa O’Kane’s It Don’t’ Hurt, is a rocking little middle-finger of a record. “I’m thinkin’ maybe you could use a change of scenery,” she sneers at her one-time paramour. “I’m thinkin’…’bout a […]
Jerry Wallace had his first significant hits on the pop charts. The Nashville-sounding “Primrose Lane” went top-10 in 1959, and five years later, his considerably more charming “In The Misty Moonlight”, a Cindy Walker-penned ballad that Wallace sang in a […]
Though the cover remains mum on the subject, this single disc collects the entirety of Norma Jean’s 1972 album I Guess that Comes Being Poor and her 1968 LP Body And Mind — and tosses in all but three of […]
Proud To Be An Okie is the most important volume of country music history to emerge in years, a worthy companion to Gerald Haslam’s similarly west-coast-centered Working Man Blues from 1999. Drawing upon everything from old fan magazines to the […]
Wilson Pickett liked to tell his audiences about the time a white journalist asked him: “What is ‘soul’?” “You know what I told him?” Pickett would preach. “I said, ‘So-oh-oh-ul. Soul! Ain’t nothin’…but a feelin’!” No need to dispute such […]
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