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Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
White Stripes / Loretta Lynn – Hammerstein Ballroom (New York, NY)
“When You’re Looking At Me, You’re Looking At Country,” Loretta Lynn sang to the people here, as she has in places much simpler than this, and in places even slicker, and with crowds both more and less interested in what she sang and how she sang it than this one was — or possibly could [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Earl Scruggs / Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs – The Three Pickers
Count this recording of a December 2002 North Carolina concert as one of the dividends of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Without that soundtrack’s reach into the PBS audience — the show is being broadcast on the network’s “Great Performances” series, and there’s a DVD with bonus tracks coming, too — it’s unlikely this collaboration [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Box Full of Letters from Issue #46
The politics of celebrity: An Earle fan’s dual views I picked up your most recent issue just a few days after attending Steve Earle’s Orlando concert earlier this month, and felt compelled to write. Like many others, I abhor many of Earle’s political positions, though I certainly respect his right to state his opinions and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Eliza Carthy – Anglicana
With Anglicana, young English folk artist Eliza Carthy waves the flag for old Blighty and coins a term to answer the popular ideal of Americana. Rather than a separate movement, or any movement at all really, Carthy presents the now well-recognized roots beneath American folk and country music. Unlike Americana, which incorporates various influences including [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Hello Stranger from Issue #46
“This was a mistake,” my co-editor wrote in the e-mail that prefaced his Drive-By Truckers cover story for this issue, referring to his decision to tackle a 6,000-word feature during the same few weeks he and his wife Susan welcomed their first child into the world. Grant was worried the work may have suffered from [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Doc-umentary, my dear Watson
The Merlefest organization has taken what’s so far a one-time step and brought out live highlights of last year’s extravaganza on the DVD MERLESFEST LIVE: THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY JAM. As might be expected, it’s a disc full of highlights, worthwhile for those who never get to the North Carolina event, and for those who do [...]
Sittin' & Thinkin' - Essay from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Pure Pop for Country People
I’ll never forget the 78 I found at a house sale 30 years ago. It was one of those maroon and gold label Kings, the kind you’d see by the Delmore Brothers or Moon Mullican. This one bore the name of Elliott Lawrence & His Orchestra. The song: “Don’t Leave My Poor Heart Breaking”, an [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Various Artists – A Country West Of Nashville
The latest from Dwight Yoakam producer/guitarist Pete Anderson’s Little Dog label is posited as a sort of cousin to A Town South Of Bakersfield, the acclaimed late-’80 series on Enigma/Restless that documented Los Angeles’ country-music underground of that era. Only this time out, as the title suggests, the scope has been widened drastically to showcase [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Great God A’mighty: The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating The Rise Of Soul Gosepl Music
Along with the Soul Stirrers and the Swan Silvertones, the Dixie Hummingbirds brought the quartet style to the masses during “Gospel’s Golden Age” in the 1940s and ’50s. But while the other two groups made their name on the southern gospel circuit, the Hummingbirds found their success in the north; they moved from Greenville, South [...]
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