Author: Lynn Bryan
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Emma Gibbs Band – Grandmothers of invention
When Emma Gibbs allowed her grandson and his buddies to practice at her house, she probably had no idea they would decide to thank her by naming their band after her. The material they worked on there eventually became Seven Even, their second self-released album, produced by John Keane (Billy Bragg, Bottle Rockets, Vic Chesnutt). [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Victoria Williams – Water To Drink
Victoria Williams makes her presence known subtly but intently. On Water To Drink, she characteristically takes the simplest elements of music — the warm greens and soft pinks — and paints with them in the wind. Her pictures end up like laughing tales and wholesome loving from the highest point of the Ferris wheel to [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Ryan Adams – Mercury Lounge (New York City, NY)
Two and a half years since the release of Whiskeytown’s sadly beautiful Stranger’s Almanac, leader Ryan Adams quietly surfaced — like that mystic groundhog in Punxsutawney — to perform newly-penned solo material on a midwinter night at New York City’s eminent rock womb, the Mercury Lounge. That evening, Adams had confirmed plans to watch Fargo [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Lambchop – Nixon
There’s a sparkling highway running through the heart of Nashville, and near it, there’s a beaten trail, and off of that, there’s Lambchop, the Sweat Hogs of the Music City. The ever-changing head count ends up thirteen on Nixon, the band’s fifth full-length, release, and just like the album’s namesake, the resourceful porchestra goes on [...]
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