Blaze Foley - The fall and rise of Blaze Foley
The black granite headstone is lost among the other markers in the Live Oak Cemetery in deep South Austin. Several small objects including a small plastic toy truck scattered around the simple flat tombstone are the only indication the dead person buried six feet under still resonates among the living,
Marvin Sease - Candy Licker: The Sex And Soul Of Marvin Sease
You've probably never heard of Marvin Sease, but from "Candy Licker" in 1986 until 2005, he was the only artist in the contemporary southern soul-blues genre to be on a major label (two, actually). This is doubly remarkable because he had only one R&B
King Curtis - Live At Fillmore West
On "Memphis Soul Stew", the opening track Live At Fillmore West, King Curtis introduces the band. When it comes time for Cornell Dupree's introduction, the saxophonist says something about "four level tablespoons of boiling Memphis guitar." Dupree responds by playing a simple run, nothing
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Down South In The Bayou Country
The 1960s were unkind to Gatemouth Brown. The blues being revived weren't his kind of big-band postwar boogie, and a brief stay in Nashville confirmed only that the door had been closed right behind Charley Pride. So he settled first in Bogota, Colombia; then Denver, Colorado; and then,
Great Speckled Bird - Self-Titled
When the roll call of grand achievements in country-rock is sounded off, Great Speckled Bird rarely makes the cut alongside the Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo or the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace Of Sin. The obscurity of this electrified 1970 experiment by Canadian folk icons Ian
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Yell Fire!
At the close of Yell Fire! and the song "Is Love Enough", just before the final strum of an acoustic guitar fades away, Michael Franti says, "Believe in coexistence."
It's not just a pretty thought. Franti and his band Spearhead walk the walk not