Author: Tommy Womack
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Albert Lee – Heartbreak Hill
For his third vocal album (and first in 21 years), Lee chooses a noble theme: the work of his friend and onetime bandleader, Emmylou Harris. All ten songs are drawn from the Harris repertoire (some of them familiar hits, others more obscure). Though she penned the liner notes, Harris remains an otherwise phantom presence here, [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley – The Ultimate Moe & Joe / Mickey Gilley – Room Full Of Roses / Gilley’s Smokin’
Today’s country artists aren’t rednecks, they just play them on TV. Twenty years ago was another matter. Moe & Joe, those were rednecks. Mickey Gilley was urbane in comparison, but he ran the world’s biggest honky-tonk, too. For better, for worse, they were the real thing. The Ultimate Moe & Joe collects all the singles [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Blue Melody: Tim Buckley Remembered
Lee Underwood was Tim Buckley’s lead guitarist and friend. They met in 1966 when Tim was 18, the year he scored a record contract and sired Jeff Buckley pretty much simultaneously. That child was a barely noticed bump in the road as Tim became a sensation and Lee played along, watching it all go down. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Self-Titled
If hippie Northern California country-rock is your thing, it doesn’t come any fresher than this. The New Riders’ 1971 debut, a gem, is now re-mastered with three bonus tracks and eight pages of liner notes to fill in all those gaps of what you thought you knew. In 1969, John “Marmaduke” Dawson was a longtime [...]
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