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Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Road To Nashville
The low-budget film industry has periodically tried to exploit country music’s popularity, with modest success. Surviving examples make for kitsch period pieces, but also offer a rare chance to see live performances. Though Waylon Jennings would rise to superstardom in the 1970s, several film companies sought to capture his magic on the silver screen in [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Field Reportings from Issue #39
TOGETHER AND APART: “Say You’ll Be Mine”, a new song co-written by MARK OLSON and his former Jayhawks bandmate GARY LOURIS, will be included on Olson’s next Creekdippers album December’s Child, due July 23 on Dualtone. Olson’s wife and Creekdippers compatriot VICTORIA WILLIAMS also has a record due on Dualtone in August, a collection of standards called [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Waylon Jennings: 1937 to 2002
“I’m just me, really. I don’t put anybody on in no way. Because I’m a man, you know. I’m very human…as far as an image is concerned, it’s in the minds of the people. There’s none in my mind, except there goes a psychedelic cowboy singer.” – Waylon Jennings, 1970 The obits were predictable: The [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music And The Southern Working Class
“The passionate predilections of the fan contend with the wary skepticism of the scholar,” Bill C. Malone notes near the end of his important new volume, Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music And The Southern Working Class. That tension between heart and mind has inspired the most compelling articulation yet of the thesis that’s [...]
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