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Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #74 March-April 2008
J.d. “cast” King
J.D. “CAST” KING, whose 2005 country album Saw Mill Man won substantial acclaim, died December 13 in Old Sand Mountain, Alabama. He was 81.
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Frank Morgan
Jazz saxophonist FRANK MORGAN died of colon cancer December 14. He was 73.
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Lydia Mendoza
Tejano legend LYDIA MENDOZA died December 20. She recorded a handful of influential sides for Okeh in 1928, and over 50 albums altogether. She is perhaps best known for her 1934 hit “Mal Hombre”. Mendoza was 91.
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Evan Farrell
Bloomington, Indiana, bassist EVAN FARRELL, who played in Rogue Wave, Japonize Elephants, and on the most recent Magnolia Electric Co. tour, died in a house fire December 23 in Oakland, California. He apparently woke the rest of the house up when a furnace caught fire, but did not save himself. He was 31.
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Vernon Derrick
Bluegrass fiddler and mandolinist VERNON DERRICK died January 4. He played with Jimmy Martin, the Stanley Brothers, and Hank Williams Jr. He was 74.
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Drew Glackin
Silos bassist and multi-instrumentalist DREW GLACKIN died January 5 of heart damage caused by an overactive thyroid. Glackin had also played and recorded with Tandy, Crash Test Dummies, the Hold Steady and others. He was 45.
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Jo Carol Pierce – Dog Of Love
A new album arriving out of the blue from Jo Carol Pierce is like a miracle — an immaculate conception, a resurrection. The Lubbock-to-Austin transplant last (and first) released a recording in 1996, though the conceptual Bad Girls Upset By The Truth was as much chicken-fried performance art as a collection of songs. She’d been [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Claire Lynch – Crowd Favorites
Two albums in two years is a welcome change for Claire Lynch, from whom so little had been heard either on record or on the road for the last half-decade. Her fetching vocal instrument — high, dulcet and clear, with a girlish pinch — is a most welcome sound. As the title suggests, Crowd Favorites [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Ross Johnson – Make it Stop! The Most of Ross Johnson
Ross Johnson’s 1993 single, “It Never Happened” b/w “Nudist Camp”, addresses Memphis music history and the scarring effect an early encounter with sexually precocious twins can have on a self-declared “southern sissy” with woman problems. A Little Rock native who moved to Memphis in 1965, Johnson has been a drummer (most notably with Tav Falco’s [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Norma Jean – I Guess That Comes From Being Poor
Though the cover remains mum on the subject, this single disc collects the entirety of Norma Jean’s 1972 album I Guess that Comes Being Poor and her 1968 LP Body And Mind — and tosses in all but three of the eleven tracks from 1970’s Another Man Loved Me Last Night. That’s a lot of [...]
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