Radio is, of course, a problem. For much of this quickly dissipating century, at least some of the important and ultimately lasting music of the day has been available, for free, to anyone within earshot of a receiver. And that […]
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Dowling Press has reissued David Goodman’s Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide & Directory. (It makes a kind of series with the No Depression anthology published by Dowling, so, yes, there’s a conflict of interest here.) Goodman has updated […]
I write and think about god rarely enough to be unsure whether even to capitalize the word or not. But it is not a subject one can avoid, living in Tennessee and writing about country music (whatever that is). Here […]
Gram Parsons: Under his spell again I had just finished belting out the final verses of “That’s All It Took”, singing along with Gram and Emmylou while cleaning house on a Sunday morning, when I paused to rip open the […]
1 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph) 2 Old 97’s, Fight Songs (Elektra) 3 Wilco, Summer Teeth (Reprise) 4 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 5 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared) 6 Tom […]
Many college towns seem to have a bar called the Library. The theory is that students in search of more than just a study hall could tell their parents, “Oh, I spent the night at the library,” when in fact […]
Twisted with such subtlety you’re taken in before you know it, Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire, and their latest disc, Oh! The Grandeur, are too original to be so accessible, too arcane to be so catchy, too smart to be […]
At the first, it must have seemed she hardly existed outside the arms of the energetic and surprisingly determined relatives everywhere around her. For a long time Anita Carter did not know that she’d been born (in March 1933) into […]
It’s Sunday afternoon during the final hours of the five-day Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma. Bob Childers has spent the better part of the week holding court with everyone from journalists to polite town folks, […]
In a perfect imaginary world, six musicians of a roots/pop collective all live, eat, sleep and breathe together. In the same bucolic setting — maybe a big, woodsy house with a fireplace that always burns — do they rise and […]
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