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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Damnations – Where it Lands
You might expect a song called “Tora Tora Tora” to follow loud/fast rules, and for one called “New Hope Cemetery” to be quietly contemplative. But the Damnations have a way of confounding expectations. So the Texas band’s new album Where It Lands has a screaming punk rave-up called “New Hope Cemetery”, and a banjo-plunking instrumental [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
In which Ralph Stanley gets to take advantage of his surprise late-in-life emergence as pop superstar to do what he’s always most wanted to in the first place: present himself to new fans in his natural context as leader, member and sometime lead singer of this band. There have, of course, been many live recordings [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Jim Lauderdale – The Hummingbirds / Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – Lost in the Lonesome Pines
Jim Lauderdale already had The Hummingbirds in the can last year when, at the last minute, he decided to go back to the studio and record an entirely new album. The result was The Other Sessions, a superb collection of tear-in-your-beer country songs. While The Hummingbirds lacks that disc’s focus, it’s no less satisfying. Contemporary [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
D. Rangers – Guess Who’s Home
I distinctly remember the first time I heard a banjo and thought it was cool, in the spring of 1993. While the Butthole Surfers’ “The Ballad Of Naked Man” no longer holds the same power over me as it did when I was 15, it was what led me to the Bad Livers’ Horses In [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Lowest Of The Low – Nothing Short Of A Bullet
After splitting up Lowest Of The Low in 1994 to concentrate on his other band, the Rusty Nails, lead singer Ron Hawkins couldn’t avoid fans questioning when or if his previous group, an early-’90s Canadian roots-rock favorite, would reunite or be given a proper sendoff. It wasn’t until November 2000 when a series of well-received [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Blue Highways Festival – Musickcentrum Vredenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Mention Utrecht to most Americans, and they’d have no clue. Amsterdam, of course. Rotterdam, maybe. The Hague, probably, for its unusual name (and its frequent role in international relations). Not so for Utrecht, the fourth-largest city in Holland, despite its 250,000 residents, a prominent university, and the country’s tallest church tower, a centuries-old sentinel that [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Kris Kristofferson Tribute – Slim’s (San Francisco, CA)
No matter how deep into the dark pit of the psyche the lyrics reached, the mood and the spirits were soaring among the hundreds who packed Slim’s on a cold and windy Good Friday. “Lots of love in the house,” declared one smiling fan, between the short set by the dreamy-voiced Mother Hips and the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Waylon Jennings Tribute – Rodeo Bar (New York City, NY)
Three weeks after the death of Waylon Jennings, a “who’s who” of New York’s alt-country scene gathered to honor one of the godfathers of country music without boundaries. The evening did more than pay tribute to Jennings’ memory; it illuminated the depth of his musical accomplishments. Kevin Karg and Jason Lewis of Star City organized [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Malcolm Holcombe / Valorie Miller – The Cave (Chapel Hill, NC)
It’s a tough Friday night crowd at the Cave — tanked-up, restless and loud. It’s a tougher duo onstage, though; and unlike much of their audience, they’re focused on where they are and where they’re going. They’ll succeed tonight because of that focus, and because of the inspiration they so obviously find in each other. [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Christy McWilson – St. John’s Pub (Portland, OR)
There’s an old adage suggesting the opening night of a tour is rarely more than a paid rehearsal. Christy McWilson, late of Seattle’s Picketts and fresh on the heels of the release of her fine sophomore album Bed Of Roses, began a ten-date tour on this uncommonly warm spring evening with a band that hadn’t [...]
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