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Peter Blackstock

Whiskeytown - Borderline (London, England)

"I think I'm the only one in the band who still drinks whiskey, so cheers," fiddler Caitlin Cary proclaimed during the encore of Whiskeytown's debut performance in London. Indeed, these shows seemed largely focused on how well leader Ryan Adams could adjust to yet

Townes Van Zandt - Last Rights

More a documentary project than a musical recording, Last Rights features 10 Townes Van Zandt songs rendered solo acoustic, primarily as part of an interview session with Larry Monroe, a longtime DJ at KUT-FM in Austin. Interspersed between the musical performances are quotes from Van Zandt explaining the background and

Toni Price - Sol Power

Since 1992, Toni Price's musical realm has been anchored by a happy-hour gig she plays every Tuesday evening at the Continental Club in her home of Austin. Accompanied by some of that city's finest players -- for the past couple years guitarists Jud Newcomb and Casper

Sunshine Club - Sorry, no KC here

It's a rainy winter night in San Francisco, but all is warm and well inside the Hotel Utah. The long, narrow room spills forth with spirits -- both distilled and historical, a sense of decades-old legend and lore looming unspoken within these walls. Tucked away in the back

Whiskeytown - Falling down, standing up

You could see it in his eyes. "Hey, hop in the van, let's have a shot," Ryan Adams beckoned, and who was I to argue with that Peter Pan gleam and Pied Piper smile. It was Saturday night of the 1996 South by Southwest Music Conference

Jayhawks - Sound of Lies

The situation is eerily similar, when you think about it. Both bands formed in the mid-'80s in the Midwest and had co-leaders who generally wrote separately yet shared songwriting credits on all their material. Both drew caringly from the deep well of country music's legacy, though

Richard Buckner - Devotion & Doubt

In the liner notes to Devotion & Doubt, Richard Buckner says he originally wrote "Song of 27", the album's final track, "as a theme of sorts for an album I wanted to make based on my own family's characters. I abandoned the project