Author: Silas House
Live Reviews from web archive December 15, 2008
Ben Sollee
Every once in awhile you’re at a show and there’s a feeling in the air that goes beyond the sensations brought on by the whiskey you’ve been kicking back as you wait ages for the acts to finally come onstage. It’s a feeling like change, but it goes beyond that. Hope is the best word [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Dan Tyminski – I’m with the band
Quotation: “I try to not be too conscious of creating music. I just try to let it be. That’s what makes great music, I think.” –Dan Tyminski Dan Tyminski doesn’t do what’s expected of him. After the amazing success of “I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow”, on which he sang lead vocal, and the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Brandi Carlile / A Fine Frenzy – City Hall (Nashville, TN)
Most everyone in the audience at City Hall had two things in common: They arrived not knowing much about A Fine Frenzy but left as complete converts, and they entered really loving Brandi Carlile but left pretty much worshiping her. It seemed most of the crowd was prepared to patiently tolerate A Fine Frenzy, which [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #70 July-August 2007
Various Artists – Just One More: A Musical Tribute To Larry Brown
Larry Brown, the renowned southern writer who passed away in November 2004, loved music. Unlike many writers of his stature, he never forgot where he was from and even celebrated that place in his novels, short stories, and memoirs. Brown is remembered as one of the masters at capturing a sense of place, and one [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007
Carlene Carter – Back in the fold
Carlene Carter starts dancing as soon as she comes onstage. The crowd at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville surges forward when she appears, pushing at the edge of the wooden stage, and Carter meets every eye, smiling wide, snapping her fingers, moving her hips, bobbing her head in beat to the music of her opening [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006
Grandpa, Granny, and Hee Haw
In 1971, CBS executive Fred Silverman made headlines with what became known as his “Rural Purge” when he canceled nine television shows (including The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry RFD, and Green Acres) — not because they weren’t successful, but because they skewed to a rural audience, which Silverman apparently deemed undesirable. The bigwig said he was [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Riley Baugus – Long Steel Rail
Although Riley Baugus’ banjo playing and fiddling have been his primary calling card as a musician, his singing is the star on Long Steel Rail. Baugus’ voice could just as well be coming out of a man plowing his garden in 1806 rather than this 40-year-old accomplished picker. Baugus delivers most of these songs solo, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Ralph Stanley – A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
It’s fitting that Ralph Stanley has created a whole album’s worth of Carter Family covers, given that he was raised just a few mountains over from A.P., Sara and Maybelle’s home in Maces Springs, Virginia. The same deeply moving notes of faith, redemption, sorrow, and every emotion in between are caught in Stanley’s voice on [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Darrell Scott – Dreams so real
These are hard times for dreamers. As Tom says in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, “nowadays the world is lit by lightning.” And it’s hard to be a moony-eyed dreamer when storms are raging, when bombs are falling, when it seems as if the entire world has gone mad. But perhaps these are halcyon days [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Wayne Scott – The tree the acorn fell from
The road to Crane’s Nest, Kentucky, winds along the course of a rushing creek, flanked on one side by a steep hill and on the other by houses that are decorated in Christmas lights and plastic Nativity scenes. The sky is low and gray here this winter evening. It is a lonely and beautiful place, [...]
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