Hank Williams III - The third man
"Lord, honey, you're a ghost," Minnie Pearl said when she first met Hank Williams III. I have the same reaction; he looks so much like his grandfather that it is unnerving. Tall and lanky, with sunken cheeks and keenly intelligent eyes, he is Hank Sr.'
Freddy Fender - The ballad of Baldemar Huerta
You saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A man with no alibi."
-- Bob Dylan
I'm just a popular singer.
-- Freddy Fender
El Be Bop Kid is not a kid anymore. "Shit, I'm almost 65," he says,
Fourkiller Flats - Not anti-alt-country
Fourkiller Flats is all but belligerently uncowed about wearing its Uncle Tupelo and Whiskeytown influences on its guitar straps. It's a refreshing posture in the wake of the occasional anti-alt-country drift, and besides, on them it sounds good.
The band's self-released debut even
Brian Burns - The Eagle & The Snake: Songs Of The Texians
Over the years, Dallas songwriter Brian Burns has built a quiet but impressive career as a Lone Star honky-tonker with a sensitive streak. On his third collection, The Eagle & The Snake: Songs Of The Texians, he has combined his skills in an attempt to tell the history (and
ALBUM REVIEW: Lambchop - 'Is A Woman'
Their sixth album in eight years finds Lambchop finding ever more intricate tapestries in their luxuriously unfolding music. With Is A Woman, the band reached for and has achieved a new level of intimacy.
Love and beauty are the substance of both the songs and the sound. Kurt Wagner'
Hank Williams Jr. - Almeria Club
Hank Williams Jr.'s artistic collapse is among country music's most embarrassing stories, not least of all for its excruciating duration. More than twenty years have passed since Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, the last of his remarkable 1970s recordings that fused honky-tonk, blues, Southern rock,