Author: Laurel Snyder
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Shame Train – And The Devil’s Square Quilt
The first time I saw Sam Knutson’s band Shame Train live, I got frustrated, because each song felt accidentally uneven, and that made the music tough to dance to. On the band’s recent release, And The Devil’s Square Quilt, that syncopation is a definite strength. The jazz woven into this record distinguishes it from a [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #38 March-April 2002
Until You Add the Steel Guitar
In a Chattanooga bar, I fell in love with country music. You can blame cheap beer and a dollar’s worth of jukebox Uncle Tupelo, but I fell hard for banjos and fiddles and, yes, even line dancing. I bought myself a straw cowgirl hat and a pair of scuffed boots. I went to Texas to [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Gloria Deluxe – Hooker
If Lucinda Williams and Tom Waits had a baby girl, and she came out singing, she might sound a little like Gloria Deluxe. Equal parts ballsy blues and pretty country, Hooker isn’t an easy record, but who wants easy? Some of these songs belong in a French cabaret, a few could pass in a Southern [...]
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