Email Author Linda Ray

2000 Stories by Linda Ray

• Pinetop Seven

  published November 9, 2000

  There's an almost incomprehensible sweep in the desert landscape that awestruck newcomers often interpret with the word "majesty." To natives,... More >>

• Waco Brothers

  published September 28, 2000

  With Electric Waco Chair, the bloodshot, burly bunch from punk country has muscled its manly rage to a mature sound. And the sound is... More >>

• Folk Implosion

  published August 24, 2000

  The deal with the Mermaid Avenue recording sessions was, if you wrote the music, you got to sing the song. So Nora Guthrie was a bit... More >>

• Various artists

  published July 27, 2000

  Down to the Promised Land is a kick in the pants for music fans, a thumb in the eye of naysayers and a great big moonin' the board rooms of... More >>

• Family Values

  published June 22, 2000

  The Handsome Family's Rennie Sparks has something to tell her fellow Americans. "I'm not weird!" she exclaims. "You only think I'm weird because... More >>