“This is an ole rock ‘n’ roll song that we played in the clubs a lot,” explains Alan Jackson, reminiscing about his #1 hit, “Mercury Blues”, in the liner notes of his ’95 best-of. Well, not quite. The song is […]
“This is an ole rock ‘n’ roll song that we played in the clubs a lot,” explains Alan Jackson, reminiscing about his #1 hit, “Mercury Blues”, in the liner notes of his ’95 best-of. Well, not quite. The song is […]
Mance Lipscomb spent most of his life in Navasota, a town in East Texas so small that it took Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz less than three hours to find Lipscomb once he learned of the musician’s existence. Half of […]
Most people associate the sound of a crying steel guitar with honky-tonk Saturday nights, not with Sunday services at the House of God. Yet as this amazing collection of contemporary field recordings attests, the instrument plays a central role in […]
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