Author: Jack Hurst
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
David Allan Coe – Penitentiary Blues
In Nashville in the late 1960s, prison was coming out of the closet. Granted, country singers had lamented for generations the tender mercies of life behind bars, and a few, more quietly, had experienced them. But in the late ’60s the subject was becoming more public. Johnny Cash sang for free at Folsom and San [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #57 May-June 2005
Merle Kilgore: 1934 to 2005
Singer-songwriter Merle Kilgore, who died of congestive heart failure February 6 at age 70, was possibly the most flamboyantly successful wannabe in Nashville’s history. Tall and magnetically charismatic, Kilgore not only co-wrote “Ring Of Fire” with June Carter Cash and wrote or co-wrote other significant country hits from the ’50s into the ’80s, he also [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Two Time Polka – Dance this mess around
Saturday night is a universal thing. So notes Ray Barron, the mandolinist and visionary creator of the Irish band Two Time Polka. He’s an expert on the subject: Two Time Polka is an Irish Cajun band. In fact, it’s Irish Cajun bluegrass rockabilly neo-folk, playing music ranging from Bill Monroe’s to Chuck Berry’s to Bob [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Josh Graves – Sliding in first time (the Resonator)
Seminal slide guitarist Josh Graves was recovering from major surgery in a Nashville hospital a few months ago when he was informed by nurses that a 25-year-old man on the same floor, a musician, had been run over by a truck and lost a leg. Graves ventured down the hall to cheer up the fellow. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #38 March-April 2002
Johnny Cash – The Fabulous Johnny Cash/ Ride This Train/ Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash & June Carter
“Hello, I’m Pure Charisma.” That might as well have been Johnny Cash’s self-introduction from 1959 to ’67, when these new reissues first appeared. One of 1958′s hotter acts, with hits extending from “I Walk The Line” through “Ballad Of A Teenage Queen”, “Ways Of A Woman In Love” and “Guess Things Happen That Way”, the [...]
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