Author: Linda Ray
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Friends Of Dean Martinez – Dream enough to sleepwalk
The word most often used to describe Friends Of Dean Martinez music is “cinematic,” but of all the movies you could imagine them scoring, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari may not head the list. In the classic silent genre, you might go for, say, the archetypal western, Hell’s Hinges, or maybe The Covered Wagon — [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Calendar Girl
Everything I know about country music, I learned from Heather’s Li’l Country Calendar. Well, darned near. For instance, not until I acquired my first did I know that on March 16, 1974, Roy Acuff showed Richard Nixon how to yo-yo at the first Grand Ole Opry show at Opryland. Or that Minnie Pearl was born [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Chris Mills – The Wall To Wall Sessions
It seemed like courting catastrophe: Record ten songs with seventeen musicians, mostly unrehearsed, live to two-track, in two days. There was a time, though, when records were made exactly that way, and Chris Mills argues that those were the best records, ever — fresh, inspired, solid gold. It was the time of Phil Spector’s “wall [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
John Coinman – Devils in the details
Join Coinman wants to talk about his song “The Hero”. Although he’s never enlisted, “The Hero” is his war experience. Having found the place from which to write it, he’s haunted by it, like a crisis he can’t quite seem to put behind him. “I think protest songs are really important. They’re not going to [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Club Congress’ 20th Anniversary – Club Congress (Tucson, AZ)
Practically everybody in Tucson is from somewhere else. That’s partly because just about everybody from here moves away. So it was that the Hotel Congress 20th Anniversary weekend was a reunion of the diaspora. Fans flew in from all over, along with members of 25 erstwhile bands reconstituted to share stages with the latest and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Joan Baez – Bowery Songs
Come back Joan Baez, come back to us now. She may have been omitted from Steve Earle’s invocations in “Christmas In Washington”, but when she sings that song, it’s as if she’s watched her own life’s work crumble and she’s come back to redeem it — the fallen unions, the common people’s voice in politics, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Red Thread – Ship in the Attic, Birds in the Subway
If there is a circumstance in ordinary life that isn’t enhanced by this record, I haven’t found it. Jason Lakis’ Bay Area art project is ingeniously subtle, an indie-trimmed exercise in pleasant sound. Amalgamating just enough hints of the familiar to make you feel at home — a few metal references, a hint of lounge, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Waco Brothers – Freedom And Weep
So what’s it like to listen to the Waco Brothers as a guy? Do you want to be them? Do you want to take them on? Do you want to drink them under the table? Or do they scare you, too? My fandom has always been complicated by fascination with all that fearsome, noisy manpower [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell – Begonias
It’s too tempting to make references to the greats — Loretta & Conway, George & Tammy, Dolly & Porter — and there will be a lot of that. The fact is, though, Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell aren’t worthy. Or rather, they deserve better, depending on how you look at it. In the 1950s and [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Laura Cantrell – Simple twist of fate
“I figured out a way to stay in New York, which was get a day job and then be involved in the things you love to do and it’ll work itself out. I had no huge goal of conquering the music business. I got to do cool things, and all those things just made me [...]
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