Author: Jesse Walker
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
Various Artists – Florida Funk, 1968-1975
Formally, Florida Funk is a sequel to Texas Funk and Midwest Funk, Jazzman Records’ other collections of R&B rarities from the late ’60s and early ’70s. Informally, it’s part of a much longer list of recent regional funk reissues. There’s Southern Funkin’ on the Beat Goes Public label, Funky Funky Chicago and Funky Funky Detroit [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
I saw the Pogues play only once, in 1989, as frontman Shane MacGowan was descending into drunkenness and a certain Tim Burton film was dominating the box office. Soused beyond measure, MacGowan staggered around the stage with little interest in singing, belching out a slurred and incoherent rant instead. The only words I could make [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Doris Duke – I’m A Loser
Doris Duke’s only major hit was “To The Other Woman (I’m The Other Woman)”, a country-soul song that sits right at the border separating Millie Jackson from Tammy Wynette. It was also the final track on 1969′s I’m A Loser, one of those albums with a mystique that threatens to render the record itself anticlimactic. [...]
Sittin' & Thinkin' - Essay from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Highway to Heaven Revisited
Among the disadvantages of being Bob Dylan, I imagine, is enduring the aftermath of being dubbed the voice of your generation. It’s one thing to switch from folk to rock just as millions of people were waiting, without realizing it, for you to push your talents in that direction. It’s quite another to become a [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Billy Joe Shaver – Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill (Highway 71, TX)
Poodie’s Bar & Grill is the kind of place they’d call a “redneck bar” out in California. Located on the eastern edge of the Hill Country, its jukebox is stocked with old-fashioned country and Southern-flavored rock; its wall decor betrays three motifs: beer, Texas, and Willie Nelson. It’s a cozy joint, and on this night [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #17 Sept-Oct 1998
Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Some remember Ray and Dave Davies for those wry English singles of the late ’60s: “Waterloo Sunset”, “Sunny Afternoon”, “Autumn Almanac” and the like, songs as steeped in music-hall tradition as they are in rock ‘n’ roll. Some associate them with the driving garage rock that first made their band, the Kinks, famous — early [...]
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