Author: Bill C. Malone
Bound - Book Review from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Country Music Sources: A Biblio-discography Of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music
This 927-page tome is easily the most important research aid for the study of country music undertaken in our time. Along with Tony Russell’s discographic investigation of pre-World War II country music (scheduled for publication early next year by Oxford University Press), Country Music Sources will supply just about everything a serious student needs to [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Bailes Brothers – Oh So Many Years
This aptly titled reissue of 28 Bailes Brothers recordings — the total output of their Columbia sessions between 1945 and 1947 — is long overdue. The Bailes were one of the most prominent country acts of the 1940s, as members of the Grand Ole Opry and as principal founders of Shreveport’s Louisiana Hayride. They introduced [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Doug Kershaw – Easy
It’s hard for me to listen to Doug Kershaw without conjuring up visions of the young man I saw playing in the late 1950s with his brother, as part of the team of Rusty & Doug. They threw themselves into their music with such passionate abandon and almost frenetic energy that listeners and viewers could [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Johnny Gimble – “The music came up from his soul”
The title of Johnny Gimble’s newest CD, Just For Fun, goes a long way toward explaining the man and his music. It would be naive to say that the money hasn’t been important to him; Gimble, after all, has been an extraordinarily commercial musician. But his sheer passion for music and his compulsion to share [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Harlan Howard: 1927 to 2002
The story is told that sometimes at the pickin’ sessions held at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville during the 1960s, one of the songwriters would wax enthusiastically about a new idea he had for a song. Harlan Howard would reply, “Don’t bother. I’ve already written it.” And more often than not, it would be true. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Various Artists – A Shot In The Dark: Tennessee Jive Country Music On Nashville’s Independent Labels, 1945-1955
By now we’re all aware of the profound role played by Bear Family in the documentation of vintage country music, and of the first-rate nature of their compilations when measured by recording quality, comprehensiveness, and annotations. But this may be their most important box set yet. The Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, and Carter Family sets, [...]
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