Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007

Features
Gene Watson – Mechanical royalty
John Fogerty – Double fantasy
Levon Helm – Midnight rambler
Marie Knight – The last mile of the way
Nels Cline – Dual tones
Steve Earle – Love and death
The Sadies – Tales from the cryptic
Articles
Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Getting their kicks on Highway 6
Bobby Byrd: 1934 to 2007
Box Full of Letters from Issue #72
Cary Fridley – Gone freightless
Cave Singers – By the light of the lamp
Cowboy Jack, Bob, & the Wolf
Field Reportings from Issue #72
Gary Primich
Gordon A. “Specs” Powell
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – The magic’s onstage
Hello Stranger from Issue #72
Hilly Kristal: 1931 to 2007
Hughie (Hugh Edward) Thomasson
Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Janis Martin: 1940 to 2007
Joe Zawinul
Larry Fuller
Lee Hazlewood: 1929 to 2007
Madison Blues
Max Roach
Patrick Borque
Roman Carter – Stepping out from the other Carter Family
Ryan Bingham – Papa was a rodeo
Tom Gillam – Too busy singing to put anybody down
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Live Reviews
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
Bob Feldman Tribute – Fitzgerald Theater (St. Paul, MN)
Brandi Carlile / A Fine Frenzy – City Hall (Nashville, TN)
Kris Kristofferson – Ford Theater, Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, TN)
Lucinda Williams – El Rey Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Tim Lee 3 / Brent Best – Hideaway (Raleigh, NC)
Wilco – Overture Hall (Madison, WI)
Album Reviews
Abbey Lincoln – Abbey Sings Abbey
Aretha Franklin – Rare & Unreleased Recordings From the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul
Ben Vaughn – Vaughn Sings Vaughn, Vol. 1 & 2
Bobbie Nelson – Audiobiography
Brian Setzer Orchestra – Wolfgang’s Big Night Out
Bruce Springsteen – Magic
Bubba Hernandez & Alex Meixner – Polka Freak Out
Buell Kazee – Self-Titled
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – Live From the Ruhr Triennale
Chris Kenner – Land of 1000 Dances
Chuck Berry – The Complete ’50s Chess Recordings (4-disc set)
Chuck Brown – We’re About the Business
Claire Burson – Thieves
Crystal Gayle – Greatest Hits
Deadstring Brothers – Silver Mountain
Devendra Banhart – Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Doyle Bramhall – Is it News
Dwight Yoakam – Dwight Sings Buck / Derailers – Under the Influence of Buck
Farewell, Drifters – Sweet Summer Breeze
Gretchen Peters – Burnt Toast & Offerings
Ian Moore – To Be Loved
Jason Holstrum – The Thieves of Kailua
Jeremy Fisher – Goodbye Blue Monday
Jim Hurst – A Box of Chocolates
Jim Mize – Release It to the Sky / Hillstomp – After Two but Before Five
Jimmy Reed – The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
Joni Mitchell – Shine / Herbie Hancock – River: The Joni Letters
Kane/Welch/Kaplin – Self-Titled
Legendary Shackshakers – Swampblood
Leon McAuliffe & His Cimarron Boys – Take Off & More
Liz Tormes – Limelight
Lou Ford – Poor Mans Soul
Luca – Fractions
Lucky Tomblin Band – Red Hot From Blue Rock
Mark Knopfler – Kill to Get Crimson
Martin Stephenson – Hell’s Half Acre
Merle Haggard – Legends of American Music: Merle Haggard — The Original Outlaw (3-disc set)
Meshell Ndegeocello – The World has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
Michael Hurley – Ancestral Swamp
Moby Grape – Wow / Grape Jams / Moby Grape ’69 / Truly Fine Citizen
Modern Lovers – Self-Titled
Moot Davis – Already Moved On
Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II
Nyles Lannon – Pressure
Pieta Brown – Remember the Sun
Red Stick Ramblers – Made in the Shade
Redwalls – Self-Titled
Ricky Skaggs & The Whites – Salt of the Earth
Robben Ford – Truth
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
Robert Wyatt – Comicopera
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – Self-Titled
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Joan Osborne / Jill Scott / Alice Smith/ Angie Stone
Shooter Jennings – The Wolf
Sterling Harrison – South of the Snooty Fox
Terri Hendrix – The Spiritual Kind
Tom Brosseau – Cavalier
Van Zant – My Kind of Country
Various Artists – Give Us Your Poor
Various Artists – Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino
Various Artists – People Take Warning!: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
Various Artists – The Cosimo Matassa Story (4-disc set)
Various Artists – The Gift: A Tribute to Ian Tyson
Various Artists – Wattstax: Music From the Wattstax Festival and Film (3-disc set)
Vashti Bunyan – Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
Vic Chesnutt – North Star Deserter
Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros – Diamonds in the Sun
Weakerthans – Reunion Tour
Will Hoge – Draw the Curtains
Woody Guthrie – The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
Wussy – Left for Dead