Author: Kevin Roe
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Rob Fulks – He took a lot of scrapple (and lived)
Rob Fulks is no stranger to contradiction. That’s obvious after just one listen to this gangly, deceptively clean-cut Chicago guitarist’s cheerful little country death song, “She Took a Lot of Pills (and Died).” It’s not your typical, happy-go-lucky Hollywood starlet suicide tale, you soon realize, as you find yourself shouting along over the soaring melody, [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Moe Bandy – Honky Tonk Amnesia
For those of you lucky enough not to be listening to country radio in the early ’70s, Moe Bandy’s hard-drinking hard country may be a subtle pleasure upon a first listen. But set against the backdrop of the countrypolitan sound that dominated country radio in the post-Vietnam era, the rough-edged traditionalism of the smoke-slicing fiddle [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Geoff Seitz – The Good Old Days are Here
St. Louis has always been a city at the crossroads. From its 19th-century heyday as a bustling Mississippi River port to its present incarnation as the big, rusty town where all them damned interstates come to a snakelike head, The Gateway to the West has been just that — a place where people, cultures and [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #3 Spring 1996
The Wooldridge Brothers – What made Kokomo famous
Kokomo…. It’s the kind of etymologically challenged word that can drive aging, sunburnt California popsters to wallow in inane tropical melodies, or compell a pair of frustrated alternative-rockers to make the big move to Milwaukee. “We were heading for New York, but we took a wrong turn somewhere after we left Indiana,” explains Scott Wooldridge, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #3 Spring 1996
Jono Manson – Almost Home
It’s a long way from the grease-streaked, beer-soaked bars of Manhattan’s Lower East Side to the clear, silent vistas of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. But on his major-label debut, expatriate New York bar-band veteran Jono Manson serves up a rippling blend of blue-eyed soul, country-rock and funked-up R&B [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #3 Spring 1996
Various Artists – Songs of Route 66
In this age of dangerously excessive nostalgia, one might be tempted to cast a jaundiced eye upon anything having to do with a road as recently (though belatedly) hyped as old U.S. 66. But even the most ardent pop culture cynic will find it hard to resist the tug of the Mother Road after one [...]
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