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Field Reportings - News from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Field Reportings from Issue #9
PASS THE SAUCE: Longtime musical compadres Joe Ely, Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, the Maines Brothers and Jesse Taylor were among the musicians who played a benefit concert in Lubbock, Texas, on April 18 to raise money for a bronze statue of the late C.B. STUBBLEFIELD, who helped give many of those musicians their start at [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch… In Memory of the Sundowners
To describe The Ranch as unlike any other place on earth would be misleading, for it was in fact very much like a great many other places: It was a country music bar. Like every country bar, the Double-R Bar (which was its official name, printed like a cattle brand, a circle with two capital [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #9 May-June 1997
The Alan Lomax Collection – Southern Journey (Vols. 1-6)
“The business of documenting the expressive culture of the world.” That’s how Anna Chairetakis Lomax describes her father’s work. Is there anything quite like Alan Lomax’s achievement, not just in the history of music, but in history, period? Remove his work and everything changes. Beginning in 1932 with the song collection American Ballads and Folk [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Vic Chesnutt / Scud Mountain Boys – 7th House (Pontiac, MI)
With the show just over 50 minutes old, scattered grumbles were heard when Vic Chesnutt announced, “we have one or two more.” Well, it did turn out to be four more, and in hindsight, this Detroit audience can count themselves fortunate to get 14 songs from Chesnutt. Two days later, the mercurial songwriter went AWOL [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Box Full of Letters from Issue #9
Cry in your beer: But renew your subscription I hated to let my subscription expire. I always look forward to receiving your magazine. But I’ve been so broke my life would’ve made a good country song. My girlfriend was pregnant and I thought I was going to be a dad (she lied, but that’s a [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Hello Stranger from Issue #9
Awhile back I wrote something about coming from an itchy footed people, and I guess you could say I’ve been scratching a good bit lately. Here’s where the road has taken me these last two months: From Los Angeles to Nashville (by plane) for NEA, a smallish music shindig, and to find an apartment. From [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Various Artists – Sourmash: A Louisville Compilation
A compilation from Louisville, Kentucky? Before you city slickers start laughing up your sleeves, consider this. Sourmash kicks things off with a previously unreleased tune by Will Oldham’s Palace Brothers, and the whole project is held together by Mark Gordon and Wink O’Bannon. Gordon has been an mainstay of the Louisville scene since the late [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Forget the Alamo; Remember the Buckhorn!
If you grew up in Texas, chances are your family took a trip to San Antonio to visit that shrine to Texas Independence, the Alamo. For many, the next stop was the Buckhorn Hall of Horns, home to the world’s largest collection of antlers, a place chock-full of cultural and natural oddities, and as quintessentially [...]
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