Gary Louris’ tenor lilts and lifts, effortlessly exploring a natural landscape, untethered from its familiar mate. He stands as if at home, singing like he means it, but in some soft way — no strain, no pressure. This just is, […]
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Joshua trees silently pass the window, the sun’s glare stealing their color. Distant mountains glisten in the tear-filled eyes of Claudette Colbert. Her smartly bobbed hair bounces lightly against the headrest as the train pulls to a stop. She walks […]
An Arkansas state song by Gregory Joe Spradlin would rock you like the wind of an Ozark overlook, where tips of descending burnt-yellow sycamores open on the gleaming blue of Lake Quachita. You’d hear the whir of reapers combing grain […]
This record is not, per se, about sex. In fact it may be one of a mere handful of new releases that doesnt use the F-word, and its even absent the lesser scatology common to traditional blues. Pop rockers in […]
“I’m sorry; I thought we played too long. I thought we played bad, and we sang bad, and I’m really sorry you didn’t have a good time.” Jeff Tweedy was doing his best to loosen the grip of wall-to-wall fans […]
Jeers and laughter greet Ross Perot’s fall beneath the outsized wheels. The shot glass in the little truck’s bed sloshes whiskey as it crisscrosses Perot’s paper face. Alanis Morissette falls next, followed by Joe Camel, but Garth Brooks still stands […]
Yard Dog, a folk art gallery in Austin, Texas, first showed Jon Langford’s art during the South By Southwest music conference in March 1996, and in November featured him in a one-man show. Recently, Langford sat down with Yard Dog […]
“When it started, the whole purpose of this band was to get beer and money,” Waco Brothers ringleader Jon Langford says of the band’s $50-a-gig beginnings a couple years ago. In the bargain, club owners in the band’s hometown of […]
Louise Seger would scrimp on groceries for a month to be able to don her red cowboy boots and yellow fringed skirt and go see the Northlight Theatre’s Chicago production of “Always…Patsy Cline”. Seger became Cline’s most famous fan with […]
It’s not so much that Pinetop Seven is like nothing you’ve ever heard, although that’s likely true. It’s more that they’re like everything you’ve ever heard all at once: Schoenberg scores honky-tonk on a 12-tone scale; Mingus plays a carousel; […]
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