Judging by the evidence here, a “workbench song” is one that Guy Clark has lovingly cobbled together, usually with an old friend or new, for no other reason than it sure is fun to cobble together songs while nursing cups […]
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At the close of Yell Fire! and the song “Is Love Enough”, just before the final strum of an acoustic guitar fades away, Michael Franti says, “Believe in coexistence.” It’s not just a pretty thought. Franti and his band Spearhead […]
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 […]
In the tradition of his 1962 album Sings The Hits Of His Country Cousins, this disc finds George Jones tackling a dozen favorites made famous by others. He didn’t really “miss” all these hits — “Here In The Real World” […]
Every serious Roger Miller fan will want to read this book, and every one of them will be frustrated. Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is only what its subtitle says: a series of interview transcriptions done by Lyle Style who, after […]
No vocal group has ever had or is ever likely to have two lead vocalists any better than the Temptations of 1964-68. Most of their leads went to David Ruffin — he’s the one beaming, pleading and sobbing on “My […]
What to make of Alabama? They were the most successful country act of the 1980s, selling gazillions of records and landing 41 singles atop the country charts — including, at one point, 27 #1s in a row. You may not […]
Darondo is this season’s hip soul man rediscovery, and one that unlike, say, Shuggie Otis, lives up to the hype. In the early ’70s, it’s said, this local legend cruised around his San Francisco neighborhood in a white, vanity-plated Rolls […]
On his debut, Waylon’s boy Shooter announced his intention to Put The O Back In Country. It was a spotty affair, filled with precisely the proportion of wise-ass attitude to gut-punch emotion you’d have predicted from the album title. Still, […]
It would be more than a little foolish to attempt a nutshell summation of a body of work as knotty and varied as Merle Haggard’s. But why let that stop us? In “Too Many Bridges To Cross Over”, the closing […]
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