Author: John J. Sullivan
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Cowlily – Self-Titled
Almost as delightful as coming across some unfamiliar masterpiece in a dusty used bin is finding a modest first draft that quietly hints of great things to come. The new self-titled EP from emerging Chicago band Cowlily falls squarely under the latter heading. Led by former L.A. Rambler Steph Turner, whose powerful (if occasionally uncertain) [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #19 Jan-Feb 1999
Bob Egan – Pedal steel to pedestal
There is a singular pleasure in hearing a backup musician step to the fore — assuming the musician is a good one, of course, and wasn’t being kept back for a reason. We are suddenly paying attention to someone we’d hitherto taken for granted. It’s like finding out that Perfectly Nice Steve, the quietly productive [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #19 Jan-Feb 1999
Field Reportings from Issue #19
Multimedia, Mississippi: It doesn’t take much of a metaphorical mind to conceive of Mississippi River geography in terms of the development of American music. In 1919, a seventeen-year-old German-American boy got onto the deck of the Sidney, a Mississippi riverboat that was tied up in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa. On board, he heard a [...]
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