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 […]
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“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 […]
Whether the Jayhawks’ day in the sun will ever come seems perhaps a moot point today. In a perfect world, one could have envisioned the Minneapolis band reaching the same kind of commercial peak as, say, the Counting Crows, but […]
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 […]
HAPPY LOVING COUPLES: The big news in alt-country circles in recent weeks, at least social circles, is the November 21 marriage of renowned singer-songwriters Iris DeMent and Greg Brown in DeMent’s hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Though their relationship had […]
In the preface of the debut issue of the Ukulele Occasional, publisher Jason Verlinde ponders, “How does the UO hope to distinguish itself from all other ukulele magazines?” Such is the specialized nature of the magazine world these days, I […]
This issue, in many ways, felt like a landmark for us. First and foremost is our cover subject, something that’s been in the works for a good while. It’s rather obvious that Johnny Cash is a natural for our magazine’s […]
TALL TEXANS: A new album from Billy Joe Shaver, who was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for songwriting at the first annual Americana Music Association Awards September 13 in Nashville, is due November 19 on Compadre Records. Titled Freedom […]
“The dancing stops, but the music goes on.” In the deepest blue of night, in the wee hours of September 29th, Mickey Newbury drifted off to dream at his home in rural Oregon, and never came back. His passing was […]
Rising in the late 1990s as a low-key weekend wind-down at the Saxon Pub, the Sunday gigs by the Resentments gradually have attained South Austin mainstay status second only to Toni Price’s ten-years-and-running Tuesday Hippie Hour gigs at the nearby […]
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