Archives for 1997 » January
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Caution Horse – Trust the man with the star
Everyone knows about The Arch, but most people don’t realize St. Louis has a Walk of Fame. In U City, the neighborhood around Washington University, the sidewalks are decorated with large bronze stars naming important cultural figures who have ties to St. Louis. Actress Betty Grable, fastballer Bob Gibson and conductor Leonard Slatkin all show [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Backsliders – Fallen angels with grizzled faces
The music scene around Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is about as balkanized as…well, the former Yugoslavia. You’ve got your punk rock kids, technique fetishists, frat-party bands, heavy metal bands, pop bands. Most all of them keep to themselves in their respective, mutually exclusive corners, which goes for the bands as well as audiences. [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Thomas Anderson – Angry Young Grad Student
From the dusty hills of Oklahoma he came — guitar in hand, bandanna on head — in 1992 to the more fertile soils of Austin, in hopes of finally finding a larger, more appreciative audience for his songs. Nearly five years later, Thomas Anderson — like so many other songsmiths in the self-proclaimed “Live Music [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Peter Holsapple – Out of My Way
Don’t know about in your town, but here in Los Angeles, “Adult Album Alternative” (aka Triple-A) radio stuff tends to be watered-down folk-rock and HORDE-iness with a side order of Steely Dan, Dire Straits and Peter Gabriel. Sure, there’s the occasional surprise, say, some old Dylan or Van Morrison, and it is just about the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Green On Red – What Were We Thinking?
If it weren’t for some enthusiastic foreigners, Green On Red might be little more than a footnote in the history of ’80s American roots-rockers. But thanks to foreign record labels such as China in London and Normal in Germany, latter-day Green On Red releases and solo records by band members Dan Stuart, Chuck Prophet and [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Hello Stranger from Issue #7
Originally, this issue’s “Hello Stranger” column was going to be about Jeff Tweedy and the controversy over what No Depression is, and/or whether it should in fact be anything at all. Back around mid-November, when ND #6 was hot off the presses and I was visiting family (both genealogical and musical) in Austin, Texas, an [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Field Reportings from Issue #7
SOUL EUROPEAN In last issue’s “Find That Band” section, we decided to take up erstwhile Jayhawk Gary Louris’ suggestion that we seek out the latest info on Souled American, a Chicago band that he and several other folks we know held in high regard in the late 1980s. The most detailed and enlightening response came [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Box Full of Letters from Issue #7
Jason & the Scorchers: Pioneers of the sons It was a great pleasure to see Jason & the Scorchers on your November/December cover. In my opinion, they are one of the most influential and underrated bands in modern post punk American music, and their new disc, Clear Impetuous Morning, shows them to still be a [...]
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