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Bound - Book Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998

Rockabilly: A Forty-Year Journey

In the foreword to Rockabilly: A Forty-Year Journey, the late guitarist Danny Gatton says of author Billy Poore: “Nobody could write a book on it like he could, ’cause he’s got an honest, blue-collar style of writing and he calls it like he sees it.” That pretty much sums it up. Poore’s new book amounts [...]

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A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998

Rockies on the radio: Boulder’s E-Town sets roots music to a grassroots cause

By Amy Reinholds

You won’t find E-Town on a map. No Colorado road signs direct tourists to Boulder’s environmental opry. In fact, E-Town doesn’t even have to be in Boulder. Nick and Helen Forster happen to live in town and record most of the radio program’s shows “live at the historic Boulder Theater,” with listeners tuning in to [...]

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Your interview with Marty Stuart
A couple of weeks ago, Marty Stuart released Nashville, Vol 1: Tear the Woodpile Down - a ten-song collection celebrating his career and his favorite music. We shared a free stream of the album with you and asked for you to submit questions you'd like to ask Marty if you had the chance. Now, he's chosen ten of those questions to answer. Each of th […]
RIP Duck Dunn, 70, bass mover of American vernacular music
 Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for Booker T. and the MGs, most all the grits 'n' greens soul voices who emerged from Memphis' Stax Records in the 1960s, and dozens of major blues-rock-pop stars during his subsequent career as an LA-based studio musician, died in his sleep at age 70 in the early morning of May 13 while on tour in Japan […]
Great Escape 2012, Brighton, UK
Three days of music in the halls and clubs and pubs and nooks and crannies of Brighton. Hundreds upon hundreds of bands. Good, enthusiastic crowds. A well attended industry convention in parallel... Downloading seems just as far from 'killing music' as home taping was in the seventies. Just as Edinburgh in August can only give you confidence in the […]
Freight Train Boogie Show #164 features The Mastersons, Tim Carroll, Infamous Stringbusters & Waco Brothers & Paul Burch and more...
FTB podcast #164 is a "One-Shot" show featuring new music from  THE INFAMOUS STRINGBUSTERS,  TIM CARROLL,  THE MASTERSONS and  THE WACO BROTHERS & PAUL BURCH. There is one huge error, I said that  THE GHOST HOTEL was the name of a song, rather… […]
Review: The Refreshments - Ridin’ Along with the Refreshments (Carpe Diem, 2011)
The Refreshments - Ridin’ Along with the Refreshments (Carpe Diem, 2011) It’s no accident that Sweden’s Refreshments have crossed paths with both Billy Bremner (for Both Rock ‘n’ Roll and… […]
Heroes by Willie Nelson
Review by Douglas Heselgrave With Lukas Nelson, Snoop Dog, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Billy Joe Shaver, Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow and more Heroes are harder than ever to come by in today’s world. And though it’s not immediately clear who or what the title of Willie Nelson’s newest album is referring to, there’s a certain sense of wistful […]