Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Features
Backsliders – Fallen angels with grizzled faces
The Coal Porters – London calling
The Volebeats – The Sky, the ocean, and the Hamtramck shuffle
The Waco Brothers – Cowboy canvas
Articles
Are You Ready for the Country?
Box Full of Letters from Issue #7
Caution Horse – Trust the man with the star
Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour
Faron Young: 1932 to 1996
Field Reportings from Issue #7
Golden Delicious – How ’bout them apples?
Hello Stranger from Issue #7
Hello Strangers – Big as breakfast
Hoot Owls – A new kind of free bird
Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
John Duffey: 1934 to 1996
Quinsonics – If Kerosene doesn’t work
Rolling Hayseeds – Tangled up in twang
Thomas Anderson – Angry Young Grad Student
Townes Van Zandt: 1944 to 1997
Trailer Bride – One flew over the rooster’s nest
Vidalias – This onion rings true
Live Reviews
32nd Anniversary Celebration – Broken Spoke (Austin, TX)
A Tribute To Hank Williams – The Cabooze (Minneapolis, MN)
Always…Patsy Cline – Barber Theatre (Evanston, IL)
Amy Rigby / Jim Lauderdale – Southgate House (Newport, KY)
Angry Johnny & The Killbillies – Local 506 (Chapel Hill, NC)
Champ Hood – Bert’s Bar (Sullivan’s Island, SC) / Bowen’s Island Restaurant (Charleston, SC)
Dee Lannon – Shibuya Crocodile (Tokyo, Japan)
Gramfest (Joshua Tree, CA)
Grievous Angels – Cicero’s (St. Louis, MO)
Marlee MacLeod – Abbey Pub (Chicago, IL)
V-Roys / Robbie Fulks – Schuba’s (Chicago, IL)
Vigilantes Of Love – Mercury Lounge (New York City, NY)
Walter Hyatt Tribute – Paramount Theatre (Austin, TX)
Album Reviews
Asylum Street Spankers – Spanks For The Memories
Billy Jack Wills And His Western Swing Band – Self-Titled
Billy Joe Shaver – Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – High Or Hurtin’
Bobby Fuller – Shakedown! The Texas Tapes Revisited
Carlene Carter – Hindsight 20/20
Chris Mills – Nobody’s Favorite
Chris Smither – Small Revelations
Chris Wall – Any Saturday Night in Texas
Chris Webster – Drive
Dan Bern – Dog Boy Van
Dash Rip Rock – Gold Record
Dennis Brennan – Iodine In The Wine
Dry Branch Fire Squad – Live At Last!
Elliott Smith – self-titled
Emmylou Harris – Portraits
Freedy Johnston – Never Home
Freight Hoppers – Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go?
Gene Autry – Blues Singer 1929-1931: Booger Rooger Saturday Nite! / Riders in the Sky – Public Co…
George Ducas – Where I Stand
Gerald Collier – I Had To Laugh Like Hell
Green On Red – What Were We Thinking?
Hank Cochran & Billy Don Burns – Desperate Men
Marti Jones – My Long-Haired Life
Mercury Dime – Baffled Ghosts
Mother Hips – Shootout
Peter Holsapple – Out of My Way
Roger McGuinn – Live From Mars
Ronnie Mack – Born to Rock
Sally Timms – Cowboy Sally
Sammi Smith – The Best Of Sammi Smith
Steve Earle / V-Roys – “Johnny Too Bad”
Walter Hyatt – King Tears