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MUTT'S UPPOI DOG PONDERING RIDES THE GRAVY TRAIN

By Matt Cartsonis
Jun 13, 1990

Despite what Sting or Paul Simon might have you think, world music doesn't have to be the pretentious sound of cultural colonialism. Here's Poi Dog Pondering member Dave Crawford's assessment of the form: "I think the best music comes from clashing cultures together and slamming them against the wall," the...
High-Stakes Honky-Tonkin'

When it comes to country music, Randy Travis means business. Big business.

By Matt Cartsonis
Mar 14, 1990

No matter what the American Express ads or the Nashville Network might tell you, there isn't really a person named Randy Travis. Sure, there is something out there called Randy Travis. It's taking the country by storm, playing rootsy country music and bringing home the kind of figures that make...
Riding a Cyclical Phenomenon

Delbert McClinton's up-and-down career curve climbs again

By Matt Cartsonis
Feb 28, 1990

Almost three decades ago, Delbert McClinton showed John Lennon the harmonica licks for the No. 1 Beatles hit "Love Me Do." McClinton was in England to play harp for an obscure figure named Bruce Channel, and the way he tells it in a recent phone interview, the meeting seemed anything...
Leaps Beyond Boundaries

Defying both conservatives and the avant-garde, Laurie Anderson keeps her art firmly off-center

By Matt Cartsonis
Feb 7, 1990

"I just think that there are lots and lots of ways to make art, and there just aren't any rules about how to do it. And that anytime somebody tries to make rules about it, it's a terrible mistake." Judging from Laurie Anderson's reputation as an avant-garde artist, you'd expect...
Born Yesterday

Ten albums from the Sixties and Seventies that sounded better in the Eighties

By Matt Cartsonis, David Koen, Michael Nevins and Sheri Shembab
Dec 27, 1989

BORN YESTERDAY Ten albums from the Sixties and Seventies that sounded better in the Eighties: 1. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO The Velvet Underground & Nico (MGM/Verve, 1967). While everyone else was doing peace and love in 1967, Lou Reed and John Cale explored the degenerate, gritty, stinging reality of...

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