A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican May 13, 2011 One of my favorite record companies — one that I hadn’t even heard of until a few weeks ago — came into being because a […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican May 13, 2011 One of my favorite record companies — one that I hadn’t even heard of until a few weeks ago — came into being because a […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican April 29, 2011 American music would have been a lot poorer had German immigrant Chris Strachwitz not gotten the weird notion to make trips to Texas to record […]
* The Best Of 1954-60 by Hylo Brown & The Timberliners. He never got to be as well known as his former bandmates Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, but Frank “Hylo” Brown is a bluegrass titan. Brown got his nickname […]
Keys to the Kingdom Cedar Hill Refugees featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley Produced by Jack Clift & John Carter Cash Ron Miles, cornet Utkur Kadirov and more
Boy, I’ve fallen behind on posting my golden prose here. This is a column I published three weeks ago after I got back from a visit to Austin to meet my new grandson. A version of this was published in […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican April 22, 2011 Here’s an innovative Denver band that’s been around for years and years. I should have been listening to these musicians for years and years, but […]
* Louie Bluie Film Soundtrack by Howard Armstrong. About 30 years ago, my pal Alec turned me on to a fun little LP called Martin, Bogan & Armstrong. It was an old African-American string band recorded in the early ’70s. […]
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican February 25, 2011 Johnny Cash was no stranger to gunfighter ballads, but I only recently learned that at one point, fairly early in his career, he also took […]
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