Some 300 fans gathered at no-smoking, BYOB, ad-hoc music venue Solar Culture, a co-op art gallery in a warehouse alongside the railroad tracks in downtown Tucson. Many more listened via the community radio station KXCI, while Rainer Ptacek fans around […]
Having just come in from mowing her lawn, and in a domestic mood, Deanna Varagona puts on R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People. Loud. In many ways Athens represents “home” to Varagona: It’s a place she lived poor but happy among […]
Quickdrawl singers Joe Rideout and John Troutman can’t help it that they sound a lot like Neil Young, so you might as well sit back and enjoy it. The likeness is strong regardless of which one sings Troutman’s road songs. […]
“Can’t you see the moon/From Texas to the New York islands?” In his hilarious, crooning, send-it-up-and-salute “Bloodshot’s Turnin’ Five”, Robbie Fulks sums up the “so there” style of that cheeky upstart label, which, with its roster of critical darlings both […]
Taj Mahal-like, Alvin Youngblood Hart continues to forage where he pleases. Start With The Soul finds him combining ’70s soul, rock and jazz in the company of Big Star and Replacements producer Jim Dickinson. Hart covers Chuck Berry’s “Back To […]
Ian Moore’s Got The Green Grass was the sound of an artist breaking free from the record-industry box. Released on Moore’s own label, Hablador, in 1999, it was his personalized resurrection after a four-year absence from the record racks. Capricorn […]
Photos in the liner notes of Chore Of Enchantment present Howe Gelb’s home, a spare, organically random assemblage of gear and everyday objects, within graceful, discreetly painted and inviting rooms, dated only by the lintels, which as much as stamp […]
Mountains contained a wide, gray sky; gunshots echoed faintly from the shooting range down the road; the wind sang atonally, unwelcomely, through the microphones. But the several hundred people who camped out, and the handful more who were able to […]
Like its namesake, the old west sidearm, the Peacemakers’ music minds that geometric line beyond which the romance of risk and chance yields to the ruin of just one step across. Lead Peacemaker Roger Clyne is a storyteller, and his […]
In this era of celebrity, Dolly Parton could be one if she never sang a note. A sign in her Dollywood museum exhorts, “You’re only as big as your biggest dream,” and Parton has always dreamed of being somewhat larger […]
