Author: Stephen W. Terrell
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Kell Robertson – Talking to the poet about bologna
The front room of Santa Fe’s Cafe Oasis is full, though few of the diners appear to have come for the musical entertainment. Kell Robertson, a crusty, round-headed leprechaun in sunglasses and a cowboy hat, climbs up on the tiny raised platform that functions as a stage. Guitar in hand, he takes his place on [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #49 Jan-Feb 2004
Judee Sill – Heart Food
Singer-songwriter Judee Sill embraced the rebelliousness and self-destruction of the early 1970s. She sang like a world-weary angel rising above her world of hard drugs, jail and reform school (where, according to her myth, she learned to play gospel piano). Sill’s self-titled debut album was the first released on Asylum Records, David Geffen’s haven for [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Howie Epstein: 1955 to 2003
For several years, hardly anyone in Santa Fe knew that Howie Epstein, longtime bass player for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, lived in the area. That changed in the summer of 2001 when Epstein and his longtime girlfriend Carlene Carter were arrested in Albuquerque for heroin possession. Carter, daughter of June Carter Cash and granddaughter [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Cornell Hurd Band – What’s so funny ’bout swing, twang and honky-tonkin’
On the surface, the Cornell Hurd Band seems like a super-proficient, ultra-tight, swing-tinged, rockabilly-informed Texas music collective. The extended ensemble — featuring fiddle, steel guitar, sax, piano and even rub-board — plays some of the tightest, music you’ve ever heard. Hurd’s band operates like a grand honky-tonk revue. Hurd shares vocal duties with band members [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Dave Van Ronk: 1936 to 2002
Many will remember Dave Van Ronk as “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” the folkie giant who let Bob Dylan crash on his couch back before anyone had ever heard of either of them. Many will remember Van Ronk for his fingerpicking, or his grand, crazy, wheezy Merchant Marine voice. Many will remember him for the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
John Trudell – Bone Days
John Trudell is one of the few recording artists who would include a review by the FBI among the blurbs in his press material — right between kind words from Bonnie Raitt and a rave from the LA Weekly. “Extremely eloquent,” some unidentified G-man wrote. Somehow it’s hard to believe that the rest of this [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Petty Booka – Singin’ In The Rain
There’s no denying that Japan’s Petty Booka is a novelty act. With their ukuleles, their faux-grass skirts and their innocent but sexy stage manner, the singers (named Petty and Booka) create an atmosphere of some mythical vaudeville stage – even when they’re singing songs by the Ramones or Culture Club. But what a novelty they [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #32 March-April 2001
Various Artists – Blaze Foley Inside: BFI Volume #3
Perhaps the greatest tribute to the late Austin songwriter Blaze Foley is the fact that Merle Haggard not only recorded Foley’s “If I Could Only Fly” — twice — but he named his latest album after the tune. Hag’s first version of that song, recorded with Willie Nelson on a 1987 duet album, caps off [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Bill & Bonnie Hearne – Outlaws in Exile
Who says a long-term stint at a hotel bar in a tourist town is a dead-end gig for musicians? For Bill and Bonnie Hearne, a longtime Wednesday and Thursday night engagement at La Fonda — Santa Fe’s oldest hotel, and one of its fanciest — turned out to be a blessing. One night in May [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Legendary Stardust Cowboy – Live in Chicago
“From Lubbock, Texas, by way of Mars…” This is how The Legendary Stardust Cowboy is introduced at the outset of this album, recorded live at the Lounge Ax in Chicago in 1998. As his band is going full-throttle on a galloping, surfadelic version of “Ghost Riders In The Sky”, the Legendary One plays a few [...]
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