Stanley Brothers - Earliest Recordings: The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (1947-1952)
Fifty years ago, the Stanley Brothers -- Ralph, Carter and company -- made their recording debut. One of the first tracks they committed to posterity was an as-of-then unreleased Bill Monroe composition called "Molly and Tenbrook". Just a few bars into the song, someone -- one of the
Various Artists - The Inner Flame: A Tribute To Rainer Ptacek
The most striking credit on this tribute to Tucson's Rainer Ptacek reads "Executive Producers: Robert Plant and Howe Gelb." That Led Zep's preening pretty boy and Giant Sand's desert visionary should find common bond in the musical inspiration of Rainer attests to
Whiskeytown - Adams and Escovedo
It happens more or less without warning or fanfare two minutes into the second track of Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac album. An old familiar voice glides in and nudges an already spectacular song to an even higher level. "So if the rain falls down on your Mississippi town,
Whiskeytown - Falling down, standing up
You could see it in his eyes.
"Hey, hop in the van, let's have a shot," Ryan Adams beckoned, and who was I to argue with that Peter Pan gleam and Pied Piper smile. It was Saturday night of the 1996 South by Southwest Music Conference
Thrillbilly - Road food in retrograde
From the artwork on their debut CD, Black Top Open Road, to the songs contained within, the romance of the road weighs heavily in the music of Thrillbilly. So it's fitting that the only time I could find to sit down for an interview with the members of
Sunshine Club - Sorry, no KC here
It's a rainy winter night in San Francisco, but all is warm and well inside the Hotel Utah. The long, narrow room spills forth with spirits -- both distilled and historical, a sense of decades-old legend and lore looming unspoken within these walls.
Tucked away in the back