Archives for 2007 » November
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings – Getting their kicks on Highway 6
To that list of storied musical roads — Route 66, Highway 61, Broadway — Blackie & the Rodeo Kings’ Tom Wilson wants to add Highway 6. It’s a less-heralded stretch of blacktop that knifes through southern Ontario and, according to Wilson, should properly cut an even bigger swath through cultural history. “When I think of [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Bruce Springsteen – Magic
When the late, legendary British DJ John Peel witnessed his first Bruce Springsteen concert in 1975, this was his assessment: “A trifle theatrical, like off-cuts from West Side Story. He is not…the future of rock ‘n’ roll, but rather a summary of its past.” Peel’s 32-year-old perspective nails the central irony of Springsteen’s career. In [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Chuck Berry – The Complete ’50s Chess Recordings (4-disc set)
Ernest Tubb’s son Justin was a 20-year-old country singer in 1955, and unimpressed by the nascent sounds of rock ‘n’ roll. Even so, as a songwriter he had an ear for a great lyric no matter the style. Hearing one current rock song that seemed perfect, he brought it to his father. It took time [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Field Reportings from Issue #72
A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMOUS: Sugar Hill Records band the INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS were big winners at the eighteenth annual International Bluegrass Music Awards Show held October 4 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. The Stringdusters — from left, Andy Falco, Travis Book, Jesse Cobb, Jeremy Garrett, Andy Hall, and Chris [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Austin City Limits Festival – Zilker Park (Austin, TX)
“What kind of surprise you gonna hit me with?” Lucinda Williams asked mid-afternoon on day three of ACL 2007. The festival had already given its answer: the unwelcome kind. A week beforehand, the White Stripes canceled (illness the stated reason, Meg White’s anxiety and stage fright the speculation), to be followed by po-mo-Mexican guitar duo [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Box Full of Letters from Issue #72
King Wilkie: And deeper ruminations… After I got over the surprise of the unexpected name-check [in Barry Mazor's feature on King Wilkie, ND #70, July-August 2007], I started thinking about music — hey, not as rare an event as you’d imagine for a nominally retired music critic. In the flush of the young-’un neo-trad rage, [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Hello Stranger from Issue #72
A dozen paces behind me, in a double closet filled with camping gear, winter coats, a box of stray patch cords and, perhaps, the family of mice our declawed cats chase in the midnight hours, there lurks a cheap acoustic guitar, left behind by another man long ago now. I do not play. Twice a [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Cowboy Jack, Bob, & the Wolf
He’s one of the most creative, unpredictable, fun-finding, fundamentally alive personages to have graced rock, country, and (but of course) Hawaiian and polka music over the past 50 years or so, but the first chance for most people to really encounter him in his full, multifaceted human wonderment is in the film just out on [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Lee Hazlewood: 1929 to 2007
In Sia Michel’s heartbreaking yet inspiring January 2007 New York Times profile, Lee Hazlewood, dying of kidney cancer, summed things up succinctly: “I’m 77. I’ve been around long enough now. I’ve lived a pretty interesting life — not too much sadness, a lot of happiness, lots of fun. And I didn’t do much of anything [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
It took Gram Parsons just over six years to change the face of American music. Parsons brought fresh force to country tradition with the International Submarine Band, remade the Byrds in his own image on the classic Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, founded the Flying Burrito Brothers, and recorded two solo albums of aching beauty, all [...]
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