Ryan Bingham |
Ryan Bingham'Mescalito'Lost HighwayPoke it with a stick, toss it in the air, blame Pat Green if you like, but whichever you look at it, the Texas singer-songwriter tradition has stalled out a little o...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:43:00 GMT |
Howe Gelb |
Hollywood handsome and larger than life, Howe Gelb is an unusual man. Strange and beautiful with a genial air, mystic charm and subtle, charismatic glow, he stands tall and sits apart. A brown-eyed ba...
Posted by on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:08:00 GMT |
solomon burke |
Solomon Burke
Nashville stews under blue sky and black clouds. In a hotel suite out west on Broadway, Solomon Burke sits, eyes bright, face beaming. He l...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:54:00 GMT |
strange country |
Strange Country Vol.1 (Albion Records, Aug 2006)
Liner notes&
In a Paris, Texas cemetery there's a statue of Jesus wearing cowboy boots. Down by the Mexican bo...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:43:00 GMT |
ben weaver |
Ben Weaver
He moves slow, has a thick-set presence, dark, demanding eyes that shine like coal, and a way with a guitar and a gift for words that belie his draggled appearance and recall ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:26:00 GMT |
the phone rang. floyd gressett answered... |
The phone rang. Floyd Gressett answered with a practiced air of calm. 'He's out,' he said. 'I think he just needed to let loose a little, is all.' Two thousand miles away to the east, Luther P...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:49:00 GMT |
eddie hinton: lost, loaded, busted & blue |
Eddie Hinton: Lost, Loaded, Busted & Blue...
Like the Mississippi river that swells and falls and gives life and takes life away, the American South that steamy, hilled and lowland...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:25:00 GMT |
hank williams |
No deeper blue
The Cadillac was powder blue, loaded with chrome and proudly cushioned on white-walled tires. Headed for Ohio from out of Tennessee, it must have cut quite a dash sweeping...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:11:00 GMT |
johnny cash / mean-eyed cat |
Johnny Cash
Feb 26, 1932 Sept 12, 2003
If America as a nation, over time and on reflection, could speak to paraphrase the simple diktat of corkscrew-haired Handsome Di...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:01:00 GMT |
yodels and monkey glands |
Yodels and monkey glands
Rediscovering Emmett Miller: the Minstrel Man from Georgia.
'The US Food and Drug Administration and the Medical Association began cracking down i...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:36:00 GMT |
