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Steve Earle - El Corazon

Artists tend to work over safety nets that appear suspiciously like a charred mattress, hose-soaked at the edge of an unmowed lawn, a crowd on the corner standing and pointing. Reasons to fail, these are. Reasons to quit, to borrow from Willie Nelson. Excuses. There's safety in

Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind

I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded in hatred Nearly 35 years after he first sang those words, Bob Dylan finds himself tormented by those two conflicting emotions. Indeed, on Time Out Of Mind, Dylan resembles the psychotic preacher played by

Down On The Farm - Gribsroed Farm (Halden, Norway)

As I drive my car up the Enningdal valley towards Gribsroed Farm, behind a horse and carriage filled with already half-drunk loafers in cowboy hats, I realize this is probably as close to a hillbilly highway as you can get in Norway. Gribsroed Farm is situated in a sparsely

Satchel's Pawn Shop - They may catch up with you

Louisville is best-known as a sports town. It's the home of the Kentucky Derby, the renowned Louisville Slugger baseball bats are made there, the University of Louisville has a fine men's basketball team, and it's the birthplace of Muhammad Ali. Until recently, the

Michael Parrish Band - Don't shoot me, I'm not the piano player

Anyone who ever did hang time with the late Townes Van Zandt has tales to tell, and Michael Parrish is no exception. First time they met, at a mid-'80s Townes gig in New England, where Parrish was then the piano-playing half of a country blues duo called

Elvis Presley - Fanfare for the Common Man

PART I Throughout the '70s, right up until his death 20 years ago on August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley regularly performed Hank Williams' classic "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" at his sold-out arena shows. "I'd like to sing a

Clodhopper - Old-school American Music

Late last summer, Clodhopper visited the Tractor Tavern in Seattle to open for the Red House Painters. My lasting impression turned out not to be from he headliner, but rather the opening act, which energized the crowd with their take on old-timey mountain songs and their quietly personal originals.