There wasnt really a plan here just a few days of hanging out at Charlie Sextons home studio shortly after he and Shannon McNally had toured together which explains the hodgepodge of the material on this seven-song EP: two Sexton/Tonio […]
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As half of husband-wife duo the Innocence Mission, guitarist Don Peris provides a sonic signature as important to the bands sound as his partners exquisite voice, if less front-and-center. On his second solo outing, Peris wisely goes the instrumental route […]
A seemingly endless procession of people snaked out the jammed entryway to Mayes Pit auditorium, streaming down the corridor of Hayes Hall, out the exit, down the sidewalk, and around the corner of the building. If there were a couple […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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