In keeping with the new print edition’s focus on (im)migration, here’s my vintage review of an album written by a multi-talented force in American popular culture, now submerged, still felt—the more detail you read (mostly in academic archives) about his […]
Tweak of my ’02 Village Voice piece. At the end I mention a song from a previous DBT album that I picked for the end of my strictly personal-use version of SRO, and a later track, young Isbell’s “Never Gonna […]
Summer Sunday Flashback Pt. Trey Hot Club of Cowtown’s lead torch Elana James has also rolled out two sets of originals and covers across various zones, always on the self-express—the first appeared in 2007, when I wrote this for the […]
Yes, imaginary friends, it’s another Summer Sunday Flashback: tweak of my ancient Voice piece, orig pub. ’08: Make It Here James McMurtry Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod) “We Can’t Make It Here,” the relentlessly calm, guitar-and-kickdrum-powered opener of James McMurtry’s […]
Yes, imaginary friends, it’s another Summer Sunday Flashback: tweak of my ancient Voice piece, orig pub. ’08: Make It Here James McMurtry Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod) “We Can’t Make It Here,” the relentlessly calm, guitar-and-kickdrum-powered opener of James McMurtry’s […]
Summer Sunday flashback, oldies reaffirmation in a preview-profile I wrote long ago for Charlotte Creative Loafing: “Can’t we-uns all jest git along” ending now with added novelty value! Keep Texas Beautiful Jerry Jeff Walker, still swingin’ on a Lone Star […]
Summer Sunday flashback, oldies reaffirmation in a preview-profile I wrote long ago for Charlotte Creative Loafing: “Can’t we-uns all jest git along” ending now with added novelty value! Keep Texas Beautiful Jerry Jeff Walker, still swingin’ on a Lone Star […]
Col. Bruce Hampton, AKA Hampton B. Coles RIP, 5-01-2017: died after collapsing on stage, at the or a peak of his 70th birthday party jam. Can’t help thinking about an interview where he and some other musos were talking about […]
Now (well, 2016): Charlie Daniels, Night Hawk: the title character, that quiet fella over there, lost his wife and babies in a sagebrush fire, so best not mess with him, This here set is at home on the emotional and […]
Sun Ra—-Singles—The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991: 63 tracks, a lot more than the one on the Evidence label (this is on Strut), and from the original masters, while at least some of the Evidence collection was from the low-budget 7″ […]
