From 1979 to 1984, Mark Hembree played bass with Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys. In his new memoir, On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year-Ride with the Father of Blue Grass (Illinois), he tells cracking good stories […]
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Listen to any of Amy Speace’s albums — her newest is Tucson, reviewed here — and you’ll hear a singer whose soul pours out poetry and a storyteller adept at creating a multidimensional narrative whose every facet shines with […]
Darden Smith’s stunning new project, Western Skies, exquisitely captures the expansiveness of the landscape of Texas and the American Southwest in photographs, essays, poems, and songs. In a book and album of the same title, Smith produces a cinematic […]
Alison Bonaguro is a country music fan who’s lived the life that every country music fan dreams about. She’s shared moments backstage after shows, in bars until closing time, and in hotel lobbies waiting for early morning airport shuttles with […]
THE READING ROOM: Tired in Book Form, Dolly’s Characters Find Life in ‘Run Rose Run’ Companion Album
Rose McCord is on the run, though it’s not until two-thirds of the way through Run Rose Run: A Novel (Little, Brown) — the sedate, button-downed, and clichéd thriller by Dolly Parton and James Patterson — that we discover why […]
Do we really need a new biography of Merle Haggard? Haggard himself left us with two autobiographies: Sing Me Back Home: My Life (1981) and My House of Memories (2002). Since the second was written 14 years before his death […]
Allison Moorer opens I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen (Hachette), her exquisitely graceful memoir of raising her son, John Henry, on the autism spectrum, with a letter to her son. Baring her soul, […]
Will we ever have enough books on Bob Dylan and his music? Every other year, it seems, another thick biography lands on our shelves, filled with exhaustive, and often exhausting, detail. Such books peer under every rock Dylan ever sat […]
Back in January 1966, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” a single by the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, roared through our speakers with a pugnacious spirit; the echoing garage rocker turned Buddy Holly’s hits, the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought the Law,” […]
Bob Dylan once told music critic Bill Flanagan that John Prine’s “stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree.” Almost two years after Prine’s death on April 7, 2020, from complications related to COVID-19, writer Erin Osmon […]
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