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Fats Kaplin - Groove and vibe

Fats Kaplin can play just about anything with strings, and a lot of things without. He is renowned for his skill on fiddle, accordion, pedal steel, guitar, dobro, mandolin, and frying pan; in addition to being a world-class musician, Fats (he was once a skinny kid named Karl) is a

King Wilkie - Monroe's horse, just a different color

"Initially, we really aimed ourselves toward trying almost to put ourselves in that Bill Monroe era -- intentionally pursued it. That was really fun, and we worked at it for a long time....But once we started letting other musical ideas and songs in, there was no stopping it,

Nick Lowe - Half a boy and half a man

"I like country & western, and I like soul, and I love that place where the two of them live, black and white, together. It makes sense to me." --Nick Lowe Nick Lowe was a tender lad of 17 when he began his recording career as a member

Jerry Jeff Walker Birthday Bash - Paramount Theatre (Austin, TX)

Last year at Jerry Jeff Walker's annual Birthday Bash show, some fool kept hollering out for Jerry Jeff to sing "Pissin' In The Wind". Jerry Jeff didn't want to sing "Pissin' In The Wind", and after more than 40 years

Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads

Back in Mott The Hoople's day, you never would've picked frontman Ian Hunter as a candidate to age gracefully. Improbably, he has done just that, perhaps because he was always a bit older than his peers. Hunter's actual year of birth has long been

Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back

Although Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin both achieved higher artistic renown, no one has united the worlds of spiritual and secular music as seamlessly as Mavis Staples. Where Aretha and Sam Cooke were seen as switching from the former to the latter (without totally abandoning gospel), it has never been

Golden Smog - Blood On The Slacks

Although playing haphazard cover songs gave Golden Smog its start in the late '80s -- and comprised the entirety of the group's 1992 debut EP On Golden Smog -- the alt-rock collective (including ex-Jayhawks Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, and Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy) took