Nick Lowe - His aim is true
My vision is to tease people. I never make a stand, you know, never put my feet down. If I write a love song, I'll always make fun of it to my friends. As a matter of fact, I'm sickeningly smug.
-- Nick Lowe in Newsweek,
Chris Knight - Kentucky straight
There's a guy in an office on Music Row, the kind of office you can find all over Nashville -- album covers and promotional posters on the walls, a conference table with enough room for artists and managers and label reps and everybody's lawyers, just down
Chet Atkins: 1924 to 2001
It's hard to believe that Chet Atkins, a name synonymous with Nashville, ever had a problem with the place, but in 1950 he did. He was in Springfield, Missouri, at the time, working on KWTO with Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, when WSM offered them a job in
Mark Eitzel - The Invisible Man
A Mark Eitzel gig can be the equivalent of a slow-motion car crash, painful to watch but impossible to look away. One performance I saw deteriorated into a heated war of words between the mightily pissed-off troubadour and some drunken hecklers. I wanted to walk out but couldn't,
Graham Parker - Deepcut To Nowhere
A blast from the past kick-starts Deepcut To Nowhere, as stinging guitar lines and organ fills punctuate Graham Parker's snarling vocals on the apocalyptic opening track "Dark Days". Parker hits the ground running with the same soulful brew of gritty R&B and pub rock
Vic Chesnutt - Left To His Own Devices
Over a recording career that dates to 1990 and now spans nine full-length albums, the gleeful gadfly of Athens has proven himself both a songwriter of immense talent and a slave to a particularly restive muse. These traits have yielded a handful of minor masterpieces -- darkly comic records that