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
Jeff Hughes - Chief of the Chaparral corral
Somebody forgot to tell Jeff Hughes he was supposed to help lead the revolution.
When Hughes arrived on the scene in Austin, Texas in 1982 from his native Beaumont, it was as a feckless college student with a license to chill. "I was coming to UT [the University of
Geraldine Fibbers - Butch
As the album title intimated, the Geraldine Fibbers' 1995 major-label debut Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home staked out uncharted musical territory. It was a mesh of art-rock sonics, street-tough stances and an underlying shade of rustic country, and it left many a critic