As writer Joe Nick Patoski and I were going back and forth about this issue’s feature story on the Resentments, we got to talking a little bit about Mambo John Treanor, the band’s original drummer and one of the quintessential […]
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Waiting in an airplane on the runway in Denver, ready to depart from a Colorado sojourn that had left things at loose ends. Pushed play on the old Walkman; the guitar slowly creeped in, gradually built, finally crashed into the […]
Strip away all the pretense, all the rock-star posturing, all the booze-fueled belligerence, all the trash-talking antics, all the profanity-laced ranting and raving…and look at what remains. An artist on the verge of 30, with about a dozen records to […]
As we were winding this issue to a close, I got a call one afternoon from Van Alston, who was cruising through my old Texas Hill Country stomping grounds on his way to visit Alejandro Escovedo. This was just a […]
“I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children’s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. The citizens of the world have lost one of their most enduring guiding lights. As a […]
When that scholarly malady known as writer’s block descends from the muses, it can be helpful to employ a simple little exercise. Particularly in cases where there is lots of ground to be covered and there are lots of stories […]
“Do I look like a loser?” Bob Neuwirth introduces himself amid a fanfare of trumpets (literally) in the opening bars of his 1974 solo debut. A loser, no — but not exactly a winner either, this Sasquatch-sized footnote to American […]
POR VIDA: Musicians across the country reacted to the news of Alejandro Escovedo’s recent hospitalization from complications of Hepatitis C by organizing efforts to raise funds for the Texas singer-songwriter, who has no health insurance. The Continental Club in Escovedo’s […]
Two different songs, two different artists, two different sports, two different seasons. Yet somehow they spark a remarkably similar sensation deep within my soul. When I hear Fountains Of Wayne’s “All Kinds Of Time”, I think of Major Applewhite. It’s […]
In sorrow she can lure you where she wants you Inside your own self-pity there you swim In sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you And only with your laughter can you win — Joni Mitchell, “Roses Blue” […]
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