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Eddie Hinton - Hard Luck Guy

Eddie Hinton was a lesser-known player in the Southern soul scene of the late '60s who made the most of his impact in the Muscle Shoals area. He wrote, played on, and produced some of the best songs from that period. After soul's tenuous musical union between

Kristin Hersh - Child is Mother to the Woman

"Because of the intimacy of their relationship, mothers [of the 19th-century South] inevitably influenced the songs that were learned and remembered by their children, the style and inflection of their singing, and the moral and aesthetic sense that may have shaped their future musical choices. Some songs were sung

Donald Lindley: 1951 to 1999

Donald Lindley, longtime drummer for Lucinda Williams, Rosie Flores, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely and many others, died of lung cancer in Austin on February 3. His frequent bandmate Duane Jarvis wrote the following remembrance of the man a couple days after Lindley's passing. February 3 was "the

Petty Booka - Country & Far Eastern

Alternative country can have more than one meaning once you get out of Dodge. For Petty Booka, the alternative country is Japan, and their venue is the 24-hour craziness of Tokyo. In the audio wasteland that is Japanese pop, only the strong or really perverse can survive the overwhelming pressure

Paul Westerberg - Beyond misanthropy

"Father. Artist. Midwesterner. Eccentric. Walker..." So begins Paul Westerberg's noun-filled description of himself in the bio for his new album, Suicaine Gratifaction. The order of the words is important, for not only is Westerberg an astute judge of his own character, he's also a

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks

In his introductory note, Bruce Springsteen describes Tracks as "the alternate route to some of the destinations I travelled to on my records." That's a fair assessment of much, but not all, of the music contained on this sprawling, four-CD set, which up to now had

Gene Autry - The Singing Cowboy, Chapter Two / With His Little Darlin' Mary Lee

My father had the wrong Gene Autry album, but I played it many times. The Original Gene Autry Sings Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The title was ambiguous: Original should have referred to the song, Autry's best-known composition (the second-biggest selling single in history), but in my memory the