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Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Let ‘em roll
GILLIAN WELCH, The Revelator Collection (Acony, www.aconyrecords.com): Built on three staged videos and nine numbers filmed at live performances in Carrboro, North Carolina and Knoxville, Tennessee, this hour-long DVD reminds us how revealing this format can be. The Revelator Collection finds enough visual equivalents for the sound and lyric concepts of 2001′s Time (The Revelator) [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Bashful Brother Oswald: 1911 to 2002
Beecher Ray “Pete” Kirby, known to country music fans as Bashful Brother Oswald, died October 17. He was 90. Oswald was largely responsible for popularizing use of the dobro in country and bluegrass music, though in his long tenure as a member of Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys, he also played clawhammer banjo and guitar [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Various Artists – Makin’ Singles, Drinkin’ Doubles
Being a premier locus/label of alt-country music isn’t easy, but Bloodshot Records has managed to make it to 100 releases with this collection of singles, rarities and previously unissued tracks. Originally, Bloodshot’s mission was a reaction to the fancified pop-crossovers of 1990s country, their aim to make records that mined more traditional roots of the [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Rock And Roll Doctor: Lowell George
Lowell George’s musical career was foundering when he died of a massive heart attack on July 29, 1979. He was only 34 and had lost control of Little Feat, the band he’d created in his image early that decade. Ironically, the group’s commercial fortunes and his involvement existed in inverse proportion — the less he [...]
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