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
Minus 5 - The Lonesome Death Of Buck McCoy
This is how long it has taken singer, guitarist and songwriter Scott McCaughey to get within spitting distance of a major-label record deal: When his original band the Young Fresh Fellows made their LP debut in 1984 with The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest, that title was an
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys - Feelin' Kinda Lucky
It is not easy to straddle musical fences the way Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys do. They may be retro down to the 1949 bus they tour the country in, but they bring western swing, hillbilly music and roots-rock raging into the last days of the 20th