Our history with Alejandro Escovedo goes back a fair ways, as those of you who have been with us since the early days likely remember. Grant wrote a feature story about him in our second issue back in early 1996, […]
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Most of what was once a towering wall of cassette tapes has been relinquished to the dustbin now, casualties of a dying format and a cross-country move. Only a few remain, boxed up in the back of the CD room, […]
Perhaps the highest compliment that could be bestowed on this record is that if you didn’t know about Mark Knopfler’s Dire Straits days or Emmylou’s Gram Parsons past and subsequent solo flowering, you might well suspect these two have been […]
“Ain’t no liquor in London, it’s forty pounds of flesh; We’re goin’ down to the local, for a pint of Scrumpy Jack.” Seated around a dining table, Tres Chicas — Lynn Blakey, Caitlin Cary and Tonya Lamm — were in […]
I never imagined, when I spent a brief stretch fifteen years ago doing some volunteer work at PopLlama Records shortly after I’d moved to Seattle (the first time), that one day I’d be doing some volunteer work taking care of […]
Though it was only an EP, the Iron & Wine/Calexico disc In The Reins was one of the year’s most anticipated and intriguing releases — one that, impressively, lived up to the hype. The artistic grounds for collaboration were ideal: […]
As a singer, a songwriter, a performer, a hitmaker, a businesswoman, a mass-market entertainer, Dolly Parton has long since proven herself to be virtually (and virtuously) unassailable. Her American icon status having been secure for decades, she’s enjoyed a remarkable […]
Nothing in the couple hours that had come before could quite have hinted at the way Bruce Springsteen would end this solo show, with the possible exception that he both started and finished the night by casting the arena awash […]
Sorting through dozens of options for a photograph that could represent our coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s effect on New Orleans music and culture, Grant spotted an arresting shot that was unlike anything else under consideration. Resting next to a little […]
The first hint is the album cover, a stark, dark blue faux-leather pattern that looks and feels like the early ’70s — especially its central image, a full-bloom rose clearly echoing the cover of the Grateful Dead’s 1970 classic American […]
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