Author: Mark Perron
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Jon Wayne – Two Graduated Jiggers
It’s been fifteen years since Jon Wayne released the infamous cult album Texas Funeral. Drunken, comic, brilliant and thoroughly dedicated to the Lone Star State in songs such as “Texas Wine”, “Texas Cyclone” and “Texas Jailcell”, the album was country of the most bizarre fashion. Its absurdly politically incorrect lyrics, nonsense words, and out-of-tune instruments [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Sandy Beaches Cruise V – M/S Leeward (Caribbean Sea)
I’ll hand it to Delbert McClinton, the man knows how to throw a party. When I saw an ad last summer in No Depression [#16, July-Aug. '98] for Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches Cruise, and it listed a musical lineup that included Joe Ely, Asleep At The Wheel, Al Anderson, Mike Henderson, Robert Earl Keen, Marcia [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Trailer Trash – Live At Lee’s
The “Lee’s” of the title is Lee’s Liquor Lounge, a renowned Minneapolis watering hole that has been home to Trailer Trash every Wednesday night for the past four years. Live At Lee’s consists of eighteen country standards and one original tune. I suppose if you put together an album of the classic versions of these [...]
