In a press release issued this afternoon, Lucinda Williams confirmed what she has been saying from the stage for the past several months: the new album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, will released on September 30 on her […]

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To continue my never-ending posts about all things Lucinda Williams, it has just been announced that Car Wheels on a Gravel Road will be released on vinyl on June 23, 2014. But it will not be on an American label. Instead, […]

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Stream the album   (Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, ATO Records & Soundcloud) The 1980s is generally considered to be Dylan’s lost decade, when many die hard fans lost faith, and is now in the midst of a revisionist revival. […]

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“When Lucinda-Cindy, then-was six years old she was putting words together on paper. For a first-grade project she wrote a poem and surrounded it by delightful multicolored designs. The teacher didn’t know where to put it, the only two categories […]

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Lucinda Williams will take a break from mixing a new album for Thirty Tigers by celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the re-release of the Rough Trade album in the town where I first saw her some 28 years ago, Austin, […]

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Jason Molina was from Lorain, Ohio.  He became well known performing and recording as Songs: Ohia, as a solo artist and with a revolving cast of musicians. Beginning in  2003, he recorded either under his own name or with a stable line-up of band […]

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Anti Records is permitting our friends at NPR Music to stream Neko Case’s eagerly awaited new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, two weeks before its September 3 […]

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Before there was Americana, there was “alt country.” A term I am still fond of and still has some relevance, if only for being one of Americana’s sub-genres. I have long pondered its genesis, its development, its emergence, i.e., when […]

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