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Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Americana Folk Festival – Montgomery Bell State Park (Dickson, TN)
The Americana Folk Festival stayed true to its premise of being an intimate, down-home event where audience and artist are but a handshake away from one another. A halcyon event compared to other festivals of its kind, like the Newport Folk Festival, that alpha of folk concerts, the Americana show still had its moments of [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Steve Earle / Allison Moorer / Laura Cantrell / Tim Easton – Southpaw (Brooklyn, NY)
According to what he told the SRO crowd at this all-acoustic CMJ songwriter’s showcase, Steve Earle had never played in Brooklyn before. But he seemed happy to be here. The youngish audience (a lot younger than him, anyway) cheered his entrance and enthusiastically mouthed the words to songs new and old.
They were on the polite [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Dixie Chicks – Jobing.com Arena (Glendale, AZ)
It was a big day for Dixie Chicks fans at the stadium/arena mega-complex in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix at the blood-red heart of crimson-state Arizona. Across the parking lot, the Chicks’ documentary, Shut Up And Sing, had opened the day before, giving hardcore fans an excuse to make a day of it.
Between watching the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Vince Gill – Paramount Theatre (Seattle, WA)
Vince Gill’s latest release, These Days, is an ambitious and auspicious behemoth of a project — 43 songs on four discs surveying four stylistic corners of his broad musical persona. As such, it was quite fitting that his 2006 tour mirrored the release’s grand size and scope.
Gill took the stage at 8 o’clock sharp (and [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Ellen Willis: 12/14/1941 to 09/09/2006
The writer and teacher Ellen Willis often described herself as a democratic, libertarian radical. Only 64 when she died of lung cancer November 9, she leaves behind a slim but essential body of cultural criticism. Willis was a fierce feminist and culture warrior who challenged both anti-porn crusaders and identity politics with special fervor, a [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Tillman Franks: 09/29/1920 to 10/26/2006
Bassist, songwriter, promoter and manager Tillman Franks died in Shreveport, Louisiana, on October 26 after a lengthy illness. He was 86 years old.
Franks was best known for befriending Hank Williams Sr. and for bringing a young Elvis Presley to the attention of the Louisiana Hayride. Williams was still largely unknown and out of work when [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Buddy Killen: 1932 to 2006
Buddy Killen, who passed away November 1 at age 73, belongs on the short list of those who most transformed country music from an amalgam of regional styles into a nationally recognized and Nashville-centered genre. Killen got very, very rich on country music, and he repaid the debt by launching the careers of many of [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Marijohn Wilkin: 07/14/1920 to 10/28/2006
Some called her “The Den Mother of Music Row,” but Marijohn Wilkin was one of the best pack members herself. In the film Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge: Where The Music Began, she sits there between Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, reminiscing about the years when their generation of songwriters came to Nashville and raised everyone’s idea [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Robert Lockwood Jr.: 03/27/1915 to 11/21/2006
Perhaps his father’s name was Robert, too, but the junior stuck because he learned to play guitar just like his mother’s boyfriend, Robert Johnson. And so he became Robert Junior Lockwood in some circles, and almost certainly that name and legacy wore tired over the years.
No matter who taught him, Lockwood could play. Born poor [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Ruth Brown: 01/30/1928 to 11/17/2006
“When Atlantic first recorded me, you know, I did ballads like ‘So Long’ and stuff from Broadway shows; Ethel Waters stuff, too. But one day I looked around and I had a tune with the tempo changed. And that they called rhythm & blues.”
So the woman dubbed “Miss Rhythm,” the singer whose smash hit records [...]
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