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Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Katz Kobayasi / Kyle Tullis / Charles and Danny Bailey / Estelle Axton / Ella Johnson / Gene Hughes
Former Grand Ole Opry steel guitarist Katz Kobayasi, who also played with such artists as Marty Robbins and Bill Anderson, passed away on February 8 of complications from a stroke. He was 60.
Bassist Kyle Tullis got his start in Gram Parsons’ Fallen Angels band and played on the Live 1973 album. He went on to [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Patty Mitchell – These Are The Good Old Days
Listeners with an ear for a sweet yet powerful voice and with a good memory may recall Patty Mitchell as the singer whose talent earned her an upgrade from scratch vocalist to featured duet partner with Ralph Stanley on his award-winning Clinch Mountain Sweethearts album. Before that, she was a self-described interim member of the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Tangerine Trousers – Dressed For Success
The latest from Detroit’s Tangerine Trousers, a sextet led by the vocal-swapping husband-and-wife team of John and CJ Milroy, offers ten distinctive cups of tea, not all of them mine. That’s nothing against the band’s general sound — sort of folk moving toward folk-rock — or their all-you-can-play buffet, which starts with guitars, double bass [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Ted Ramirez & The Santa Cruz River Band – Hard Road Traveling: Songs For Heros, Hobos, Winners and Losers
Texas troubadours may be the best known, but the troubadour tradition runs all along the U.S.-Mexico border, and thrives particularly in the tiny towns, villages and ranching communities that dot the Arizona borderlands. In many such communities, a single troubadour emerges as the most popular source of the traditional corridos that document the region’s tall [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Diana Darby – Fantasia Ball
Largely recorded at home to four-track cassette, Fantasia Ball is a trembling confession murmured to shadows, sighed from the psyche, and hummed in harmony to silence. To speak of records as therapy conjures all the wrong associations, but like the deepest therapy, the deepest music can be an utterly personal investigation.
While mostly avoiding righteous anger [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Mark Thomas Stockert – Chatelaine Saloon
Though this is his solo debut, Mark Thomas Stockert is no apple-cheeked kid. He’s done time on the Minneapolis bar circuit at the helm of an outfit called Taconite Haven, and he’s served as a studio hand, most recently aiding his Eclectone label-mates Martin Devaney and Big Ditch Road. Now the somber Chatelaine Saloon outs [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Alton Stitcher – Everybody’s Tuned To The Radio: Rural Music Traditions In West Georgia 1947-1979 — I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
There’s “folk music,” and then there’s music actually made — and made well — by some folks. These intriguing and enjoyable CDs put together at the State University of West Georgia focus on the latter.
Everybody’s Tuned To The Radio gathers broadcast performances recorded from WLBB, a lively and imaginative little 250-watt station out of Carrollton, [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Beat Farmers – Tales From The New West Plus
The Beat Farmers were already on a major label tour by the time I stumbled into them during the summer of 1986. They were opening for the Smithereens in Morgantown, West Virginia, and I was there with the now ex-wife of one of my best friends, and some doughy childhood friend of hers who had [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Dave Edmunds – From Small Things: The Best Of
A convincing argument can be made that when it comes to gateway musicians responsible for shaping many of the talents showcased in these pages, Dave Edmunds ranks up there with the Knitters. Although he scored his biggest U.S. chart hit (”I Hear You Knocking”) in 1971, the Welsh singer-guitarist’s zenith as a recording artist arrived [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Chris Smither – Honeysuckle Dog
Recorded with producer Michael Cuscuna in two sessions — Woodstock, December 1972, and New York City, Spring 1973 — this was to be Smither’s third album for Poppy. Soon after it was finished, the label folded, parent company United Artists took over the masters, and the album was shelved. The Cambridge-via-New-Orleans guitarist, singer and songwriter [...]
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