Issue #56 March-April 2005
Features
Crooked Fingers – Dignity in the arts
Hubert Sumlin – Who’s gonna share them shoes?
Jimmy Lafave – Hard-core troubadour
John Doe – Wolf at the door
Josh Rouse – Leaving middle America behind
Kathleen Edwards – Basic instincts
Los Super Seven – Border radio
Nanci Griffith – If there’s no hope at the end of it, there’s no point in writing it
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion – Gathering stones together
Articles
Jerry Scoggins / Mack Vickery / Jimmy Griffin / Spencer Dryden / Leslie Wilburn
Art Stamper: 1933 to 2005
Assaying the Archives
Box Full of Letters from Issue #56
Dao Strom – Down by the old mainstream
Duhks – Old-time’s new wave
Field Reportings from Issue #56
Get yer X-Ray Shaver for a Buck Cash!
Grascals – The sidemen’s side project
Hacienda Brothers – Points for Pennmanship
Hank Garland: 1930 to 2004
Hayes Carll – Everybody’s talkin’
Hello Stranger from Issue #56
Honky Tonk Hero
Issue #56 March-April 2005
Jake La Botz – Sweet Home Chicago
Louisiana Hayride: Radio And Roots Music Along The Red River
Martha Carson: 1921 to 2004
Mickey Newbury: Crystal & Stone
Old Time Religion
Precious Bryant – The blues tells the truth
Retail Chart from Issue #56
Shooter Jennings – Nevermind the O, here’s the W
Son Seals: 1942 to 2004
Live Reviews
Caitlin Cary / Kevn Kinney / Jason Isbell – Pour House (Raleigh, NC)
Guided By Voices – Metro (Chicago, IL)
Kristin Hersh / Ben Weaver – Schubas (Chicago, IL)
Mark Olson (and Friends) – 400 Bar (Minneapolis, MN)
Mound City Music Festival – Mississippi Nights (St. Louis, MO)
Patterson Hood – Asheville Pizza & Brewing Company (Asheville, NC)
Ray LaMontagne – Iron Horse (Northampton, MA)
Windblown – Crighton Theater (Conroe, TX)
Album Reviews
Al Green – Everything’s OK
Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Ani Difranco – Knuckle Down
Bellwether – Seven And Six / Missing Numbers – Self-Titled
Ben Lee – Awake Is The New Sleep
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Featuring Jimmy Martin – The King And The Father
Blind Boys Of Alabama – Atom Bomb
Bluerunners – Honey Slides
Bow Thayer – The Driftwood Periodicals, Volume 1
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning / Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Buck 65 – This Right Here Is Buck 65
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Bridge Over Troubled Water / Ruby & Other Bluegrass Specials
Chet Atkins – Mr. Guitar: The Complete Recordings, 1955-1960
Chris Stamey Experience – A Question Of Temperature
Clem Snide – End Of Love
Country Soul Revue – Testifying
Dallas Wayne – I’m Your Biggest Fan
Dan Israel – Time I Get Home
Deana Carter – The Story Of My Life
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper
Dusty 45s – Devil Takes His Turn / Cast Iron Filter – Falls Of Rough
Dwight Twilley – 47 Moons
Elizabeth McQueen & The Firebrands – Happy Doing What We’re Doing
Frames – Burn The Maps
Fred Eaglesmith – Dusty
Glen Phillips – Winter Pays For Summer
Hothouse Flowers – Into Your Heart
Innocence Mission – Now The Day Is Over
Jack Logan – Nature’s Assembly Line
James Brown – Soul On Top
James King – The Bluegrass Storyteller
Jess Klein – Strawberry Lover
Jessi Alexander – Honeysuckle Sweet
Jimmy Webb – The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb In The Seventies
Joe West – South Dakota Hairdo
John Hammond – In Your Arms Again
John Kruth – Songs From The Windy Attic
Johnny Dowd – Cemetery Shoes
Josh White – The Elektra Years
Kelly Joe Phelps – Tap The Red Cane Whirlwind
Kimberley Rew – Essex Hideaway
Kings Of Convenience – Riot On An Empty Street
Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
Larry Sparks – 40
Lee Ann Womack – There’s More Where That Came From
M. Ward – Transistor Radio
Maia Sharp – Fine Upstanding Citizen
Marianne Faithfull – Before The Poison
Mark Geary – Ghosts
Merle Haggard – Unforgettable
Muddy Waters – Hoochie Coochie Man: The Complete Chess Masters Volume 2, 1952-1958
Paul Brady – Say What You Feel
Peter Elkas – Party Of One
Quebe Sisters – Texas Fiddlers
Queen Esther – Talkin’ Fishbowl Blues
Randy Kohrs – Im Torn
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Delirium Tremoloes
Reckless Kelly – Wicked Twisted Road
Redbird – Self-Titled
Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys – Empty House
Rosco Gordon – No Dark in America
Sharon Jones & The Dap-kings – Naturally
Shivaree – Who’s Got Trouble
Stonewall Jackson – Waterloo
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Shake The Sheets
Tom Russell – Hotwalker
Various Artists – A Songwriter’s Tribute To George Strait
Various Artists – Doctors, Professors, Kings And Queens: The Big Ol’ Box Of New Orleans
Various Artists – Sunday Nights: The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough
Various Artists – The Best Of King And Starday Bluegrass