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Whiskeytown - Adams and Escovedo

It happens more or less without warning or fanfare two minutes into the second track of Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album. An old familiar voice glides in and nudges an already spectacular song to an even higher level. "So if the rain falls down on your Mississippi town,

Thrillbilly - Road food in retrograde

From the artwork on their debut CD, Black Top Open Road, to the songs contained within, the romance of the road weighs heavily in the music of Thrillbilly. So it's fitting that the only time I could find to sit down for an interview with the members of

Jeff Hughes - Chief of the Chaparral corral

Somebody forgot to tell Jeff Hughes he was supposed to help lead the revolution. When Hughes arrived on the scene in Austin, Texas in 1982 from his native Beaumont, it was as a feckless college student with a license to chill. "I was coming to UT [the University of

Geraldine Fibbers - Butch

As the album title intimated, the Geraldine Fibbers' 1995 major-label debut Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home staked out uncharted musical territory. It was a mesh of art-rock sonics, street-tough stances and an underlying shade of rustic country, and it left many a critic and listener tongue-tied

Minus 5 - The Lonesome Death Of Buck McCoy

This is how long it has taken singer, guitarist and songwriter Scott McCaughey to get within spitting distance of a major-label record deal: When his original band the Young Fresh Fellows made their LP debut in 1984 with The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest, that title was an impish

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys - Feelin' Kinda Lucky

It is not easy to straddle musical fences the way Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys do. They may be retro down to the 1949 bus they tour the country in, but they bring western swing, hillbilly music and roots-rock raging into the last days of the 20th century. Feelin&

Bill Frisell - Nashville

Bill Frisell is a guitar genius. Any of his multitude of collaborators -- from John Zorn and Arto Lindsay to Elvis Costello and Marianne Faithfull -- can attest to that. What's becoming increasingly clear, though, is that he is also a brilliant composer. A bona fide American original,