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” […]
“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 […]
“This was a mistake,” my co-editor wrote in the e-mail that prefaced his Drive-By Truckers cover story for this issue, referring to his decision to tackle a 6,000-word feature during the same few weeks he and his wife Susan welcomed […]
CORNSHUCKS CLASSICS: In the wake of last issue’s cover story about Mildred Jorman, a.k.a. Little Miss Cornshucks, the French record label Melodie Jazz Classic has announced plans to release Little Miss Cornshucks: 1947-1951, a compilation of recordings Cornshucks made for […]
It may be that the greatest challenge an artist faces in the arc of a career is deciding when it’s time to change direction. The great ones seem to seize that moment. In the rock era, hallmarks remain the Beatles […]
A prime example of an artist caught between the intransigent rock of the mainstream and the intangible hard place of the underground, Allison Moorer has managed to have it both ways, and neither. She’s played the Academy Awards and house […]
WAR ON WAR: Artists within the country and Americana music communities have expressed their views on the war in Iraq recently in a variety of ways, and have provoked a variety of reactions. Media attention has focused primarily on the […]
On her last visit to the West Coast, in early 2002 and many months pregnant, Kasey Chambers had collapsed onstage in San Francisco, prompting the cancellation of the Seattle finale to a month-long U.S. tour. The Australian singer-songwriter made good […]
Our March-April issue inevitably tends to be at least tangentially focused on South By Southwest, the behemoth music confab held every mid-March down in Austin, Texas. To borrow the tired but true adage, SXSW is spring break for the music […]
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