Features
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – Learning what’s Rite from Lefty and Hank (Thompson, that is)
Blue Mountain – Oxford Blue: making a mountain out of Mississippi mud
Freakwater – Not your auntie’s skiffle band
Golden Smog – Hawks & Dogs Run West and Wilconvert your Soul
Marlee MacLeod – Miles and miles of music, far from the maddening crowd
Walter Salas-Humara – The man behind the Silos turns on his Radar gun
Articles
Country Dick: Wild, True
Issue #2 Winter 1995
Jolene – Ardently pursuing their Hee-Haw memories
Lefty Frizzell: The Honky-Tonk Life of Country Music’s Greatest Singer
Old 97’s – They’re a pain in the neck
One Riot One Ranger – Buckeyes gone bluegrass
Ronnie Mack – Broadsides from the Barndance brigade
Live Reviews
A Night of Reckoning – North Star Bar (Philadelphia, PA)
Bridge School Benefit – Shoreline Amphitheatre (Mountain View, CA)
Continental Drifters – Gulf Coast/Brother Jimmy’s (Chicago, IL)
Jayhawks – The Backstage (Seattle, WA)
Parlor James – McCabe’s (Santa Monica, CA)
Son Volt – The Iron Horse (Northampton, MA) / Wilco – The Paradise (Boston, MA) / Wilco – Lupo’s …
The Schramms – Cicero’s (St. Louis, MO)
Tom Russell – The Grand Emporium (Kansas City, Missouri)
Album Reviews
Acetone – I Guess I Would
Blue Rodeo – Nowhere to Here
Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad
Cigar Store Indians – Self-Titled
Dan Stuart – Can o’ Worms
Dan Zanes – Cool Down Time
Dead Hot Workshop – 1001
Doug Stevens & The Outband – When Love is Right
Dwight Yoakam – Gone
Ed Pettersen – Desperate Times
Eric Ambel – Loud & Lonesome
Frontier Trust – Speed Nebraska
Gringo – Self-Titled
Jack Logan & Liquor Cabinet – Mood Elevator
Jo Carol Pierce – Bad Girls Upset by the Truth
John Hiatt – Walk On
Lowen & Navarro – Pendulum
Maria McKee – Life is Sweet
Neal Casal – Fade Away Diamond Time
Prairie Oyster – Only One Moon
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant – Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Brya…
Swingin’ Haymakers – For Rent
The John Doe Thing – Kissingsohard
The Mavericks – Music for All Occasions
The Velvet Underground – Peel Slowly and See (5-disc set)
Various Artists – It Came from Memphis
Various Artists – True Sounds of The New West / Various Artists – Austin Country Nights / Various…
Various Artists – Twisted Willie
Victoria Williams & The Loose Band – This Moment in Toronto
Vidalias – Something She Said / Unquestioningly
Volebeats – Bittersweet
Wayne Hancock – Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
Whiskeytown – Faithless Street
On the Cover: Blue Mountain
