Author: Kurt B. Reighley
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Oh Susanna – Oh Susanna
Remember the backlash when 20-year-old Tanya Tucker decided to “go rock” in the late ’70s? The third album from Suzie Ungerleider, alias Oh Susanna, is unlikely to cause quite as big a stink — the Vancouver singer-songwriter has always been vocal about her love for the Rolling Stones — but stylistically, it leaps across a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Grand Drive – Self-Titled
Given our current administration’s slash-and-burn foreign policy, it’s tough to believe there are still folks in other lands who would gladly sell their grandmother for a shot at U.S. citizenship. But judging from their Stateside debut, London quartet Grand Drive fits that category. Considering the high quality of their wares, the Department of Immigration would [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Eleni Mandell: Revelations of an X-lover
Eleni Mandell was in high school when she discovered that country music and run-ins with the law sometimes go hand-in-hand. “I was a huge X fan,” Mandell begins. “So when the Knitters happened, I went and saw them.” Although her father sometimes listened to Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, it was that night, hearing John [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Fruit Bats – Mouthfull
If you work or dwell in a concrete-and-steel metropolis and find yourself in sudden need of some fresh air and greenery, pop on Mouthful, the second full-length from Chicago’s Fruit Bats. Like Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), Eric Johnson pens songs that teem with flora and fauna: shorn sheep, tumbleweeds and reeds, even “leviathans down in the [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Jesse Malin – It takes the Village
Listeners get lots of glimpses of the Big Apple on Jesse Malin’s The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction: the downtown drag queens and outer borough dwellers who’ve “never been past the bridge” in the haunting ballad “Brooklyn”; the three-card-monty racketeers of the rhythmic “Riding On The Subway”; the jolt of watching a troubled friend split for [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Catherine Irwin – Letting her Freakwater flag fly
When Catherine Ann Irwin — best-known as half of the creative nucleus of Freakwater — was a just a tot, she learned that her financial security for life had been provided for. Or so she thought. It was the early 1960s, and Irwin’s father was attending graduate school at Indiana University in Bloomington. Baby Catherine, [...]
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