Gene Clark - Gypsy Angel: The Gene Clark Demos 1983-1990
By the turn of the 1980s, ex-Byrd Gene Clark's glory days were dwindling fast. Despite three good-to-dazzling mid-1970s solo albums, the major-label crash-and-burn of McGuinn, Clark & Hillman in late 1979 (after such a promising rebirth just two years before) signaled a retrenchment for Clark.
By the time
Webb Pierce - Caught In The Webb: A Tribute To The Legendary Webb Pierce
Webb Pierce should have been in the Country Music Hall of Fame a decade before he died of pancreatic cancer in 1991. He didn't get there until 2001.
Shortly after he died, I began researching a story on his life. I planned to speak with some of his
Dan Baird & The Sofa Kings - Redneck Savant
Everyone's favorite satellite from Georgia, Dan Baird, has recently been serving up twang and thunder in the refreshingly blue-collar Yayhoos. Here, via a 2000 concert set recorded in Switzerland, he tugs that collar down and proudly shows off his farmer's tan line. And then some; the
John "Mambo" Treanor: 1953 to 2001
August found the heart of Austin, Texas, beating in a mournfully irregular fashion after the loss on August 20 of John "Mambo" Treanor, arguably the city's most prolific, eccentric and best-loved drummer. Mambo, 48, died after what is usually referred to as a "brave battle
Kitty Wells - The angel went down to Georgia
Kitty Wells, the Queen of Country Music, went to Georgia in 1974 to record with members of Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band. It was the first time a big-name country hitmaker had cut an entire album with a rock band, but hardly the first time Kitty Wells had
Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life Of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager
Managers rarely achieve notoriety beyond the backrooms and boardrooms of the entertainment industry, but the rotund Colonel Tom Parker would have been a compelling character had Elvis Presley and rock 'n' roll been the flash in the pan everybody once assumed them to be.
By all accounts, Parker,