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 […]
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“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 […]
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 […]
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 its 2001 self-released debut Rabbit Songs (reissued with wider distribution by Bar/None in 2002), Brooklyn band Hem established itself as one of the most promising new acts of the decade. Their secret was simply the sheer beauty of the […]
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 […]
TALK OF THE TOWNES: In The Beginning, a collection of Townes Van Zandt demos recorded in 1966 — a couple years before the release of his debut album — will be released April 22 by Houston label Compadre Records. Nine […]
“We don’t really know this song, but we’ll give it a try, since someone said they wanted to hear it,” acquiesces Steven Sanderson, frontman for Massachusetts band the Drunk Stuntmen. He’s hoping to fool the crowd at the Brewery nightclub […]
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