John Prine's First Review (by Roger Ebert)
I'm an expatriate Chicagoan. An old folkie from the Steve Goodman / John Prine days. I grew up with them and with Roger Ebert. Here is an Ebert Sun Times column where he includes the first review ever of a John Prine show.
John Prine: American Legend
From My Archives: "The Easy Winners" - Scott Joplin, Andre Previn, Itzhak Perlman
Talk about a cross-over album. "The Easy Winners" (Angel Records, 1975) was the work of Scott Joplin as interpreted by Andre Previn and Itzhak Perlman. The result was beautiful, a classic that probably should have got more attention than it did.
Joplin's ragtime is the
Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin
“They just don’t do it for me anymore.” We’re almost at the end of a delightful evening of music and banter from Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin. MCC has just finished singing I Feel Lucky, and this is her confession. Though she sings about Lyle and Dwight
CD Review - Phosphorescent "Muchacho"
The cover art of Phosphorescent’s Muchacho depicts a grittily lit scene with two topless women on a motel room bed - one on her back and the other upright and beaming, sporting a cowboy hat. Matthew Houck (aka Phosphorescent) laughs in the foreground, much of his face off to the
HOW ROGER ALAN WADE BEAT DEVIL (AN ODE TO JOHNNY KNOXVILLE)
“There were other lonely singers
In a world turned deaf and blind
Who were crucified for what they tried to show
And their words can be found scattered
Through the swirling winds of time
Cause the truth remains no one wants to know.”
From Kris Kristofferson’s “To Beat the
Chip Robinson: A Backslider Sliding Back.
Chip Robinson's Backsliders were one of Raleigh, NC's big alt-country three (the other two being Kenny Roby's Six String Drag and of course Ryan Adam's Whiskeytown) during the 1995-1999 glory days. After releasing two fantastic but underappreciated albums (Throwin'