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The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Buddy Miller – It’s Miller’s Time
It arrived innocently and quietly enough in the post last summer, amidst the relative trickle of new releases that tend to surface between the labels’ much busier spring and fall seasons. Your Love And Other Lies, by Buddy Miller, some guy I’d never heard of; I set it on the rack of things to listen [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Bob Neuwirth – The stories he could tell
I first saw Bob Neuwirth standing in front of Hole In The Wall, a storied bar and music venue in Austin, Texas. It was two days prior to the South By Southwest music conference this past March, and numerous musicians were jockeying for position, eager to perform on the small stage. The expectant crowd was [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Bill Lloyd – With his new band the Sky Kings, Bill Lloyd builds a bridge between the country charts’ higher ground and the power-pop underground
Bill Lloyd has had a seemingly schizophrenic career, but his two musical personalities — the major-label country hitmaker and the indie-label power-pop solo artist — have always been inextricably linked in his career. That’s because he was born in the hills of Kentucky but raised with the Beatles and British Invasion music filling his head. [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Beatle Bob – A Dancin’ Fool
If you don’t know Beatle Bob, you just don’t get out enough. Lord knows, HE does, and he’s probably even been to a show in your town in the not-too-distant past. According to his personal log, Beatle Bob went to 407 shows in 1995, the majority in his hometown of St. Louis. But he also [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Ass Ponys – Would the Ass Ponys, by any other name, smell as sweet?
City-bred, it is easy to envy small-town life, for there is certain solace in those familiar faces, in that closed circle, in the measured, steady pace of their living. Or so it seems, warping off the highway with some kind of introduction — strangers must be vouched for — to map-dots like Bethel, Ohio, where [...]
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