Author: Randy Fox
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Laura Nyro – Angel In The Dark
Laura Nyro, while always wearing her influences on her sleeve, had something else to put into her music, which can only be classified as inspired genius. Nyro had the ability to capture the romance of the New York streets completely in her voice and writing. This was the person who wrote “And When I Die” [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Gram Parsons – Another Side Of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons 1965-1966
Gram Parsons gets heavy credit as one of the pioneers and true talents of country rock. In the 27 years since his death, no one has matched the beautiful fragility of his voice or his novelistic sense of country songwriting (i.e., “$1000 Wedding”). Though Parsons may not have been an overly prolific writer, the few [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Dan Penn – Nobody’s Fool
Dan Penn is one of the great songwriters. His work and his life are what legends are made of, and so is this recording. Penn wrote or co-wrote such ’60s classics as “Dark End Of The Street”, “Do Right Woman” and “I’m Your Puppet”; Nobody’s Fool, released in 1972, was his first solo record. His [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Various Artists – Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness
Maybe it was my age. Maybe it was my way of life. Of course, maybe it was just wishful thinking. I always looked to the writings of Jack Kerouac, not necessarily for answers, but for inspiration, for verve. If you were susceptible to such things, it was hard not to read On The Road or [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Bobby Fuller – Shakedown! The Texas Tapes Revisited
Bobby Fuller has always been one of rock ‘n’ roll’s great mysteries. His death at age 24, caused by asphyxiation from gasoline, was ruled a suicide, a verdict commonly thought to be incorrect. Fuller had gasoline all over his body, and other clues from the crime scene hint strongly that it was a murder, though [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #2 Winter 1995
The Velvet Underground – Peel Slowly and See (5-disc set)
For those who might wonder what place the Velvet Underground in a country-oriented magazine, the answer is in the music. Would “Pale Blue Eyes” sound foreign in the hands of George Jones or Lefty Frizzell? Absolutely not. A good part of Lou Reed’s songwriting, subjects notwithstanding, is constructed in the same classic sense as most [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #2 Winter 1995
Walter Salas-Humara – The man behind the Silos turns on his Radar gun
Walter Salas-Humara’s new release, RADAR, is not a drastic departure from his previous records, but it does bring some new elements into the fold. There’s a quirkiness in the first three-quarters of the disc that lends itself well to the songs. The last part of RADAR sounds related to much of his older work. Enough [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
R.S. Field – Outstanding in his….
R.S. Field represents one of the great hopes for Nashville. He is a maverick producer/performer/songwriter who is not afraid or ashamed to integrate Nashville’s past sounds with its present. In an era where most major-label country is either overproduced ballads or southern-slanted rock, Field knows how effective the basics of true rock ‘n’ and true [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Ronnie Dawson – Just Rockin’ & Rollin’
Ronnie Dawson rocks. There just ain’t no doubt about it. The man has it from the tip of his flattop all the way down to his boogie shoes. That much has been clear since the ’50s, when he was a young rock ‘n’ roll prodigy cutting the rockabilly classic “Rockin’ Bones” (a song the Cramps [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Daniel Tashian – Sweetie
Daniel Tashian comes in loaded with a heavy background. His father, Barry, led one of the great ’60s bands, Boston’s Barry and the Remains. Even now, Barry and his wife Holly continue to record fine music in the country-folk vein. But Daniel has staked out his own turf on this release. The only comparison I’m [...]
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