Tarnation - Gentle Creatures / Paula Frazer - The Hand (7-inch)
Paula Frazer's voice swoops like a barn swallow on the last day of fall, riding hot currents for the pleasure of swooping and dipping, and not altogether concerned with destination. Hers is a beautiful voice, pure and limber.
Gentle Creatures is the second offering from the San Francisco
Crop Circles - Counterculture Country comes calling
Earl Brooks of Seattle band the Crop Circles did what any self-respecting musician would do. He dropped an advance of his bands first CD by the radio station in his hometown in Idaho. And after a few days, he called the guy and asked if he could have it back.
Whiskeytown - A short interview's journey into Hell
I have to tell you about the bizarre thing that happened while I was talking to Ryan Adams for this story. It was at a monthly show called the Songwriters Alliance Series at the Berkeley Cafe. A guy here by the name of Jeff Hart puts it on and invites
"I am a lineman for the county...."
Those unforgettable words first rang out of the radio in 1968, with songwriter Jimmy Webb's majestic melody gliding on the wings of Glen Campbell's sweetly aching, longing croon into the No. 3 spot on the Billboard charts a few weeks later. It was the only time
Son Volt - Dim lights, small cities
Catchin' an all-night station
Somewhere in Louisiana
It sounds like 1963
But for now
It sounds like heaven.
--"Windfall," Son Volt
It's a warm, incandescent, comforting burnt-orange blur. The slim needle of the AM radio dial in that old Chevy stationwagon, dimly lighting the
Southern Culture on the Skids - Dirt Track Date
At first blush, the presence of these ersatz white-trash exponents on a major label, even after a slew of indie releases, defies reason. Then you hear David Hartman's cowbell clear as, well, a bell on "Voodoo Cadillac", and Rick Miller's chooglin' guitar heads