Author: Jennie Z. Ruggles
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Freight Hoppers – Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go?
When a Southern California girl such as Gillian Welch gets onstage in a house dress and channels a Depression-era Iowan, it proves the spirit of traditional bluegrass won’t be tempered. It also proves you don’t need anything more than a guitar to have soul. With the seductiveness of snake charmers, the Freight Hoppers spin out [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Amy Rigby – Mod, but not Squad
Judging from the acts she has shared a stage with, you’d think Amy Rigby might have come straight out of the Nashville songwriter scene. She has opened for Bill Monroe, Dwight Yoakam and James McMurtry, and has been a guest on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree. She loves Merle Haggard and named her seven-year-old daughter after [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Palace Live – “For the Mekons et al.” b/w “Stable Will”
Those present at the Lounge Ax in Chicago on November 17, 1994, got a real treat when Will Oldham put on a benefit show for the venue. Lounge Ax, in jeopardy because of a joykill neighbor, has been in a world of litigational hell since ’94. Seems they were lacking a certain “Place of Public [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Haynes Boys – Self-Titled
There was something wrong with the soundtrack on my recent cross-country drive. We were listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd instead of the Haynes Boys debut album. There’s a little more wisdom and lyricism in the Haynes Boys stanzas than what Skynyrd distilled out of their J&B-soaked rehearsals. Somehow the lyric “Neil Young should remember / A [...]
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