Bill Kirchen - Have Love, Will Travel
When rock 'n' roll crawled onto land in the 1950s, it emerged from the morass comprising jump blues, rhythm & blues, country, and hillbilly music. Around 1970, when rock 'n' roll was only as far removed from its humble beginnings as today's music has
BR5-49 - Live from Robert's (EP)
All kinds of ink has been spilled recently heralding this Nashville combo as a welcome return to a time when country music could be found in its rawest and purest form -- and totally line-dance free. And after listening to the band's debut, Live At Robert's,
Kimmie Rhodes - West Texas Heaven / Waylon Jennings - Right for the Time / Willie Nelson - Spirit
Those of us who share a Lone Star state of mind frequently feel that Texas music fails to receive due justice from the music industry at large, that the cross-bred styles that are the state's stock in trade don't fit neatly within the categorical boxes
Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels
[Editor's note: In recent discussions with a couple of our contributors, Rob Patterson and Bud Scoppa, we discovered that both had been among a small crowd on hand for a Gram Parsons gig at New York's legendary Max's Kansas City nightclub in March 1973.
Steve Earle - Can't Keep a Good Man Down
I can still hear them blaring in the back of my mind, those gleaming brass trumpets and trombones, thrusting right and left, toward one end zone and then the other, as the University of Texas marching band zipped through "The Wabash Cannonball". Aside from "The Eyes of
Shane MacGowan & The Popes - First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN)
"This town is so depressing. This is the most depressing town we've ever been in."
Those were the first words Shane MacGowan slurred to the large and sweaty First Avenue crowd at his first appearance in Minneapolis in many, many years. The crowd cheered wildly, of