Six years ago, drum and bass was going to save the music industry, and we were all going to stay up all night and dance with strangers in Dr. Seuss costumes. Didn’t quite happen. Rock is back, unexpectedly the industry’s […]
Six years ago, drum and bass was going to save the music industry, and we were all going to stay up all night and dance with strangers in Dr. Seuss costumes. Didn’t quite happen. Rock is back, unexpectedly the industry’s […]
Junior Kimbrough died four years ago at the age of 67. His was not a death by misadventure, but from heart failure after a life of hard work in a region of the country where the median income dips precipitously […]
Gospel is the truth. And country music is the truth. Such is the Wisdom of Solomon. Solomon Burke, that is. The Bishop. The Wonder Boy Preacher. The King of Rock ‘n’ Soul. Burke’s appetites, entrepreneurship and vocal prowess — not […]
He came from the country and his name was Williams. He performed in a cowboy hat, sang about railroads and lost love and jails — and emerged as a professional performer after being released from the pen, having served time […]
For his solo debut, Widespread Panic’s John “JoJo” Hermann hops up a guitar, some “cowboy chords” and a backing band that includes the North Mississippi All Stars’ Dickinson brothers. Less greasy, funky, and lighter (in more ways than just skin […]
Fat Possum Records has a knack for finding artists trapped in a another time. Their rediscoveries of Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside helped to renew the blues by bringing it closer to its roots. In the wake of Kimbrough’s death […]
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