Petty Booka - Country & Far Eastern
Alternative country can have more than one meaning once you get out of Dodge. For Petty Booka, the alternative country is Japan, and their venue is the 24-hour craziness of Tokyo. In the audio wasteland that is Japanese pop, only the strong or really perverse can survive the overwhelming
Donald Lindley: 1951 to 1999
Donald Lindley, longtime drummer for Lucinda Williams, Rosie Flores, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely and many others, died of lung cancer in Austin on February 3. His frequent bandmate Duane Jarvis wrote the following remembrance of the man a couple days after Lindley's passing.
February 3 was "the
Kristin Hersh - Child is Mother to the Woman
"Because of the intimacy of their relationship, mothers [of the 19th-century South] inevitably influenced the songs that were learned and remembered by their children, the style and inflection of their singing, and the moral and aesthetic sense that may have shaped their future musical choices. Some songs were
Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band - Bring the Family
"The old write memoirs, the young do resumes. In midlife we keep a kind of diary that always begins with a discussion of the weather. The present is where we live, equidistant from our birth and death....We see our history and future clearly. We sleep well, dream in
Eddie Hinton - Hard Luck Guy
Eddie Hinton was a lesser-known player in the Southern soul scene of the late '60s who made the most of his impact in the Muscle Shoals area. He wrote, played on, and produced some of the best songs from that period. After soul's tenuous musical union
Tangletown - Ordinary Freaks
It's easy to get tangled up in this album's tale of two families without ever getting to the music. A primer: Tangletown leader Seth Zimmerman is the nephew of Bob Dylan and cousin to Jakob. The album is the first released on ex-Prince & the