Issue #3 Spring 1996
On the cover: Steve Earle. Photo by Alice Wheeler.
FRONT PORCH
Ten Second News; Box Full Of Letters.
MIKED
Live reviews
S.P.I.T.T.L.E. Fest, Raleigh, NC; Hank Williams Wednesdays, Seattle, WA; Old 97”s/Freight Whaler/$2 Pistols, Raleigh, N.C.; Jack Logan & Liquor Cabinet, Philadelphia, PA; Lucinda Williams/Walter Salas-Humara, Los Angeles, CA; Sparklehorse, Cambridge, MA; Kevn Kinney, Portland, OR.
TOWN & COUNTRY
Brief regional features
BR5-49 (Nashville, TN); Richmond Fontaine (Portland, OR); the Billy”s (Minneapolis, MN); Derailers (Austin, TX); the Buckets (San Francisco, CA ); Disciples Of Agriculture (Brooklyn, NY); Moonshine Willy (Chicago, IL); Red Dirt Rangers (Oklahoma City, OK); Wooldrige Brothers (Milwaukee, WI); Angry Johnny and the Killbillies (Easthampton, MA).
THE LONG CUT
Extended features
Steve Earle (by Peter Blackstock)
Richard Buckner (by Debbie Dodd)
Go To Blazes (by Eric Babcock)
Wanda Jackson (by Neal Weiss)
NOT FADE AWAY
Reissues
Bob Dylan & The Hawks; Carter Family; Jean Shepard; Handpicked: 25 Years of Rounder Bluegrass; Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Killbilly; Merle Haggard; Cattle Call: Early Cowboy Music and Its Roots.
WAXED
Record reviews
Merle Haggard; Jolene; Mike Henderson; Joe Henry; Syd Straw; 16 Horsepower; Charlie Chesterman; Don Baird; Mark Eitzel; Terry Allen; Cowboy Junkies; Giant Sand; Swingin” Doors; Swinging Steaks; Mandy Barnett; Mike Johnson; Ned Henry; Los Lobos; Gary Heffern; Hangdogs; Elliott Murphy; Jono Manson; Rip Masters; George Huntley; John Wesley Harding; Jimmy Silva”s Goat 5; Jackie Leven.
SCREEN DOOR
Stuff we like
Gram Parsons, live at Max”s Kansas City in New York, NY, March 1973.