Practically everybody in Tucson is from somewhere else. That’s partly because just about everybody from here moves away. So it was that the Hotel Congress 20th Anniversary weekend was a reunion of the diaspora. Fans flew in from all over, […]
If there is a circumstance in ordinary life that isnt enhanced by this record, I havent found it. Jason Lakis Bay Area art project is ingeniously subtle, an indie-trimmed exercise in pleasant sound. Amalgamating just enough hints of the familiar […]
So what’s it like to listen to the Waco Brothers as a guy? Do you want to be them? Do you want to take them on? Do you want to drink them under the table? Or do they scare you, […]
It’s too tempting to make references to the greats — Loretta & Conway, George & Tammy, Dolly & Porter — and there will be a lot of that. The fact is, though, Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell aren’t worthy. Or […]
“I figured out a way to stay in New York, which was get a day job and then be involved in the things you love to do and it’ll work itself out. I had no huge goal of conquering the […]
Growing up an Arizona girl, I once asked my musician father why American music always seemed to be changing while all kinds of Latin music stayed essentially the same. The answer was some windy thesis on the evolution of western […]
If you’re stuck for a wedding present, you could hardly go wrong with Cooking In The House Of Cash, a gift from one of the most dynamic marriages of our time. The June Carter and Johnny Cash household is the […]
If Audrey Auld Mezera weren’t Tasmanian, she’d be Texan. Texas — produced by Gabe Rhodes (son of Kimmie) and featuring members of Jimmy LaFave’s band — is her tribute to the music of that land, and to the Austinites who […]
Tucson the sunny resort and retirement mecca is a thing apart from the Tucson where real folks have lived out generations in blue collars, abiding in trailers with broad vistas of creosote, lavender mountains and endless glare. Swamp coolers hum […]
Chris Gaffney is recording his fifth or maybe sixth perfect vocal take of the Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham classic, “It Tears Me Up”. Rasping, gorgeous and heartbreakingly soulful, it’s still not what he’s after. It’s past 10 p.m. on the tenth […]
