No one would ever mistake Townes Van Zandt for Red Foley, not even before the ravages of drugs and booze rendered his vocals brittle and unsure; near the end, his voice was the sound of dissipation itself. And it’d be […]
No one would ever mistake Townes Van Zandt for Red Foley, not even before the ravages of drugs and booze rendered his vocals brittle and unsure; near the end, his voice was the sound of dissipation itself. And it’d be […]
The hard part to remember now is that this man was once regularly described by many, himself included, as a rough-edged, brawling fight-picker and general maker of trouble. It’s hard because the 63-year-old performer we see onstage these days, the […]
A guitarist for Waylon Jennings for a dozen years beginning in the mid-1960s and an Allman Brothers Bandsman for another year, Billy Ray Reynolds is still perhaps best known as a songwriter; his “It’ll Be Her”, included here, charted in […]
It’s no great surprise to learn that Hayes Carll is from Texas. Lean country-folk and roots-rock arrangements; idiosyncratic vocals once or twice verging on a yodel; wayward characters looking for a little peace and more often finding it in a […]
It’s no great surprise to learn that Hayes Carll is from Texas. Lean country-folk and roots-rock arrangements; idiosyncratic vocals once or twice verging on a yodel; wayward characters looking for a little peace and more often finding it in a […]
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