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Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Box Full of Letters from Issue #61
New Orleans: Pointing the way Thank you for your coverage about New Orleans. You definitely got the right people to comment as Mike West, Lynn Drury and Grayson Capps are all charter members of the local musician community who have earned their reputations by gigging relentlessly. I, too, played the Kerry and the other clubs [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Hello Stranger from Issue #61
Although optimism is hardly my forte, we planted an orchard this fall. Not where our pond was, up the hill — that dirt will take some work and time before it’ll grow much but dead leaves — but out back at my father-in-law’s place, where long ago he ran a few inherited cattle until he [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Gibson Brothers – Red Letter Day
The Gibson Brothers have been making bluegrass records for a decade now, and practically every review has been studded with references to “brother duets” and “sibling harmonies”. There’s sense to that, of course: Eric (banjo) and Leigh (guitar) are brothers, their harmonies have been (and remain) central to their music, and while their instrumental work [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Born To Rerun
Wings For Wheels, Thom Zimmy’s “making of” documentary DVD bundled with Columbia’s 30th anniversary boxed edition of Springsteen’s Born To Run, has its moments: Bruce and the original LP’s producer, Jon Landau, taking brand new listens to forgotten takes buried in the months of session audiotapes and finding both “What were we thinking?” and “Why [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Field Reportings from Issue #61
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: Now that PETER GURALNICK’S long-awaited biography, Dream Boogie: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke, takes its place alongside the author’s definitive writing on the lives of Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke and others, the obvious question is: What’s next? Guralnick, who spent seven straight years on the Cooke project but had been collecting [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Link Wray: 1929 to 2005
Two heavily-strummed D chords and an E opened Link Wray’s 1958 hit instrumental “Rumble”, which had a total of four chords but inspired guitarists of that era and all that followed. When he died at his home in Denmark November 5 of apparent heart failure at 76, the media correctly characterized him as the father [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Various Artists – The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 3: 1963
By the end of 1963, Billboard had temporarily ceased publishing an R&B chart because, as Craig Werner explains in the liner notes to Volume 3 of The Complete Motown Singles, “it was pointless to print the pop list twice.” Motown played a key role in this confluence of pop and soul, a position of importance [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Dream Boogie: The Triumph Of Sam Cooke
Peter Guralnick’s new biography of Sam Cooke is everything we’ve come to expect from him: ferociously researched and clearly written, with a deep understanding of the culture in which it is set. It’s nearly 700 pages of labor of love, so why did I feel unsatisfied when I closed it? Partly because, unlike the pieces [...]
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