Sarah Lee Guthrie still vividly remembers the epiphany that struck her three years ago in Los Angeles when her husband-to-be, Johnny Irion, handed her a guitar and guided her through that first simple lesson. “I was trying to play a […]
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Back in February 1992, in a telephone interview for a daily-paper concert preview, I asked Townes Van Zandt if he tended to benefit from the covers of his songs that occasionally popped up amid the big leagues of country music. […]
One of the quirkier aspects of the Austin music scene circa 1990 — and likely in other towns as well, to a certain extent — was the quality of music being released only on cassette. Compact discs were not yet […]
It seemed like a fine idea on paper: Apply the considerable vocal abilities of Carol Van Dyk, frontwoman for melodic Dutch rockers Bettie Serveert, to a rootsy country-folk setting. The self-titled disc from Chitlin’ Fooks teams her with Pascal Deweze […]
To the right, to the left, to the front, to the back — everywhere you looked in the giant field at the foot of the Watson Stage, there were endless throngs of people, eagerly awaiting the Merlefest debut of Dolly […]
Is it comin’ around again? These “next-big-thing” waves tend to flow in cycles, you know. There was clamor circa 1995, when Gavin magazine’s now-relocated Americana chart made its debut, as did our 32-page first issue, and when Son Volt and […]
“I’d never done anything like that before — just wrote a straightforward love song for this woman.” A rare breed indeed is the artist who could make such a statement. Ask the majority of songwriters what the majority of their […]
More than a year after it went on sale at Waterloo Records in Austin — where it eventually sold more than 10,000 copies, at a single store — Lonelyland finally received a nationwide release via Universal in March. The ultimate […]
An advance copy of The Earth Rolls On arrived in my mailbox just before I left town for the holidays, as Grant and I were in the midst of pondering what to put on our next cover. Shaver was among […]
“People will be like, ‘God, I don’t ever wanna see that Scott McCaughey guy again!’” Scott McCaughey is discussing his band’s — or rather (and more to the point), his two bands’ — upcoming West Coast tour, wondering if perhaps […]
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