A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt - Cactus Cafe (Austin, TX)
"HOUSEBOAT IN HEAVEN"
Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas, for the last time on Saturday, October 13, 1996. He died on January 1, 1997, the anniversary of the death of Hank Williams, one of his true heroes. During the radio tribute I did to
Guy Clark & Mickey Newbury - Old friends
It's a cloudy January afternoon when I first get Mickey Newbury on the phone. "How's the weather down there?" he asks. I'm in San Francisco, he's in Oregon, and we're both patiently awaiting what excitable weather reporters have
Goody Blick & The Country Kind - Hailing from the state of cornfusion
"Say we're from Ballard, not Seattle." These are the first words spoken by Goody Blick and Anne Marie Ruljancich as we sit down at the Crocodile Cafe for an interview. Ballard is a sleepy Seattle neighborhood that's home to a large contingent of aging
Various Artists - Straight Outta Boone County
Just what kind of moonshine are those folks at Bloodshot Records drinking anyhow? After three excellent compilations of what they like to call insurgent country and a stable full of like-minded recording artists, the Chicago label has gotten downright conceptual with Straight Outta Boone County. WLWs Boone County Jamboree
Alison Krauss & Union Station - So Long, So Wrong
As someone once noted, bluegrass somehow suggests a wilder yet simpler time. For Alison Krauss, now the musics undisputed star, that time was the 70s. Krauss grew up listening to traditional bluegrass, as well as such progressive bands as the New South, Boone Creek and New Grass Revival. But lately,
Buick MacKane - The Pawn Shop Years
The most memorable True Believers performance I ever witnessed was on a hot June night 12 years ago at the fabled Continental Club in Austin, Texas a show that concluded with the Believers, Doctors Mob and Scratch Acid all onstage together in varying states of sobriety slogging through Gary Glitters