Author: Barry Mazor
Live Reviews from web archive March 30, 2009
Foster & Lloyd
Talking with Bill Lloyd and Radney Foster before this much-anticipated reunion gig, the capper in a series of fund-raising shows for the Americana Music Association at the storied club, we were trying to scope out how long it has been since the innovative country duo had performed together like this. There had been, they recalled [...]
Column from web archive February 23, 2009
Americana, by any other name…
For anybody who still tries to maintain that musical genre styles are set in stone and have their own set of compatible, identifiable players – kind of like Mount Rushmore, but allegedly more natural – things must seem to be getting kind of loose out there. Robert Plant, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell and Charlie Louvin, [...]
Live Reviews from web archive February 22, 2009
Vince Gill
When the Country Music Hall of Fame honors an act with the request that they be its single annual “Artist In Residence” – the featured performer and producing ringmaster for a series of special shows at the Hall – the selection itself implies that the artist is comfortable as an emcee. In the case of [...]
Live Reviews from web archive January 25, 2009
Connie Smith
You may imagine that seeing a full-force, honky-tonk-loaded set from the great Connie Smith and her crack band is commonplace in Nashville, seeing as how she’s on this town’s Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts regularly, and more recently is also seen doing a number or two on her husband’s lively Marty Stuart Show on RFD-TV [...]
Column from web archive January 19, 2009
Blues, soul, or rock ‘n’ roll…
A new line of blues and soul DVDs from the Shout! Factory people under the Mojo Working legend has raised a couple of questions for me — ongoing questions. One is whether that “blues and soul” pairing is becoming permanently joined at the hip now. The two genres certainly have had there moments of (as [...]
Live Reviews from web archive January 16, 2009
Cowboy Jack Clement
“The world will always welcome cowboys…as time goes by,” sang pop music’s own seriously jovial jester and sage, with that very Cowboy Jack Clement modification applied to the old standard. “As Time Goes By” may well be featured, as a foxtrot, on Clement’s planned album of dance songs of all styles. He introduced a few [...]
Column from web archive December 22, 2008
Thinking chrono, logically
It’s calendar-flippin’ time again, kids, and the turn of the new year brings – with a certain amount of aggravating inevitably, as far as I’m concerned – vast amounts of media and individual civilian list-making and reckoning, all built on the questionable assumption (or page-filling, useful fiction) that something identifiable, memorable, and even significant simply [...]
Column from web archive December 8, 2008
Getting a leg up
with High Horse
Americans and others, apparently, are going to be living in “interesting times” for awhile – the “interesting” of the over-quoted old Chinese proverb being, of course, a euphemism for “rough, unnerving and generally headed downhill.” Still, for every comedian who asks me if this fresh online ND delivery system is about to be renamed “New [...]
Record Review from web archive December 1, 2008
Old 97′s
[Editor's note: This review begins our monthlong look back at some of the year's best records. More details here.] If gravity is a natural force that pulls things toward each other, anybody remotely familiar with the stories of most bands must figure that it’s inevitably loses its power over time – usually, a short time. [...]
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