Flight Of Mavis - Self-Titled
It's late '89 or early '90. I arrive at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 45 minutes before the start of a twin bill featuring Philly's Flight Of Mavis opening for Austin's the Reivers to find the club
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Terry Allen - Amerasia
West Texas meets Southeast Asia in this reissue of an album long considered an oddball curiosity even within the curious career of Terry Allen. Something of a chicken-fried Renaissance man, the native Texan (long based in New Mexico) has earned acclaim extending from the fine-art galleries that house his paintings,
Rodney Crowell - Fate's Right Hand
Listen up, kids. You know what awaits in middle age: resignation, complacency, compromise, numbing nostalgia, a life sentenced to domestic drudgery. Hope I die before I get old, right?
Well, at the ancient age of 53, Rodney Crowell has not only stared into the abyss of wrinkles and gray hair,
Kris Kristofferson - Broken Freedom Song
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
Broken Freedom Song
Oh Boy
This collection of fifteen songs, four of them new, was recorded in front of a live audience at the Gershwin Theater in San Francisco in July 2002, well before the war in Iraq, but Kris Kristofferson's song selection was eerily prescient.
Todd Steed - Sphere of influence
Todd Steed can remember the first song he ever wrote about Knoxville. He was in a punk band in the early 1980s called the Real Hostages: "We would write about the local radio station, and how we hated it," he says.
It was the beginning of a music
Courtney Lee Adams Jr. - Western to East Village
Onstage at the Lakeside Lounge, at the last in a series of shows marking the release of her long-awaited debut album, Courtney Lee Adams Jr. is pissed.
"I've got my bitch on tonight!" she promises the audience. She tosses in rants about a bad cab ride
Joe Callicott - Ain't A Gonna Lie To You
In 1929, Mississippi's Joe Callicott made a trip to Memphis with his friend Garfield Akers to record for Vocalion. Callicott's solo recordings never saw the light of day; only "Cottonfield Blues (Parts 1 And 2)", with Callicott backing Akers, was released. A year later,