A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican September 16, 2011 As Waylon Jennings put it back in the late ’70s, “Don’t y’all think this outlaw bit’s done got out of hand?” A current odious […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican September 16, 2011 As Waylon Jennings put it back in the late ’70s, “Don’t y’all think this outlaw bit’s done got out of hand?” A current odious […]
I was just getting used to the Amazon and Google music clouds when along comes Spotify. For the past couple of weeks or so, this is where I’ve been listening to most of my music. And creating playlists has become […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican August 12, 2011 Many of us — fans and critics alike — have groaned for decades about the fact that the music the general public calls “country” has […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican August 5, 2011 Holy Red Headed Stranger, Batman! It’s a cosmic concept album set in the Old West. And just like Willie Nelson’s classic musical parable, El Santo […]
A video by Chris Wright of my song “Potatoheads’ Picnic” from the Picnic Time for Potatoheads album Song copyright 1981 Sidhe Gorm Music (BMI) Video copyrigh…
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican July 22, 2011 The Romweber kids are back, and they’re bursting with joyful noise. I’m referring to the Dex Romweber Duo — Dex and his sister Sara on […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican July 8, 2011 He was one half of The Ding Dongs with Mark “BBQ” Sultan, playing lo-fi, trashy rockabilly. Then he made some curry-flavored rockabilly slop with Sultan’s […]
* Movin’ On – 30 Songs by Hank Snow. You got your Hank Williams, your Hank Thompson, your Hank Cochran, your Hank Penny … But ranking way up there in the pantheon of country music Hanks is Clarence Eugene Snow ,,, […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican July 1, 2011 Peter Greenberg with Barrence Whitfield in Santa Fe last year After a quarter decade, East Coast R & B and soul shouter Barrence Whitfield has […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican May 20, 2011 Bob Dylan turns 70 years old on Tuesday, May 24. Seventy years old. I’m not going to gush here about what Old Man Zimmerman’s music […]
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