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Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Last Days At Lounge Ax – Lounge Ax (Chicago, IL)
When Lounge Ax shut its doors in the wee hours of January 16, a chapter in Chicago rock history ended. The scruffy-as-it-was-legendary club on the city’s North Side carved its niche in the indie-rock ’80s and nurtured Windy City bohemians through the ’90s, but met its inglorious end when an investment banker bought the building [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Box Full of Letters from Issue #26
Richmond Fontaine: Blackstock, you ignorant slut Peter Blackstock’s review of Richmond Fontaine’s Lost Son [ND #25, Jan.-Feb. '00] inspired one “printable” word: NONSENSE. Perhaps there are others — garbage, crap, you get the picture. Perhaps Blackstock should spend more time listening to the music and less time admiring his words in print. Richmond Fontaine is [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Bap Kennedy – Hillbilly Shakespeare
Recording an album of fairly straightforward Hank Williams covers is about as adventurous as stepping into the slow-pitch cage at the batting range. Sure, you’ll get a bunch of good cuts, but you’d be much more impressive if you were crushing the ball in the super-fast cage. This admittedly shaky metaphor sums up Bap Kennedy’s [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Hello Stranger from Issue #26
I remember nights like these when we were out in L.A., back before Grant moved to Nashville — waiting until the wee hours to write the “Hello Stranger” column, downing a coupla beers to hopefully help unloose a few words, grazing through the page-proofs looking for some kind of unifying theme. It’s been awhile since [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Merle Haggard’s My House Of Memories: For The Record
Anyone even slightly familiar with the background of Merle Haggard’s music would be unsurprised to hear that Lefty Frizzell’s indispensable recordings of Jimmie Rodgers songs such as alt.country precursor “My Rough And Rowdy Ways” were among his prized boyhood possessions. But it may intrigue many to learn that by the age of 14 Haggard was [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Hank Snow: 1914 to 1999
When I was in junior high, my nearly total musical passion was soul music. But for a couple of years there, between spinning 45s of the Staple Singers, O’Jays and Spinners, I would also regularly play a scratchy old LP that belonged to my folks, called The Best Of Hank Snow. I would sit cross-legged [...]
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