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HONESTY IS THE BEST ANODYNEUNCLE TUPELO KEEPS ITS MIDWESTERN ROOTS ON THE WAY TO LOW-TECH SUCCESS

By Robert Baird
Nov 3, 1993

Ask any big star about telephone interviews, and he'll tell you that there's an art to blowing them off. The trick, from a musician's point of view, is to dust off a writer without stirring up a grudge. After all, you never know when your tour or album might need...
PASS THE JAM

By Robert Baird
Nov 3, 1993

Pearl Jam Vs. (Epic) They're back for round two, folks. Vs., the second album from Pearl Jam, finds the Seattle grunge men cranking it out in top form. Though Eddie Vedder's voice has always been the band's main feature--the vibrating, gut-driven growls of one white boy's angst--the guitars of Stone...
FUNK, BY GEORGEHERE'S ONE CLINTON WHO WON'T BE CONFUSED AS A HALF-BROTHER OF BILL

By Robert Baird
Oct 27, 1993

Time and rhythms are fluid for George Clinton. His clock and metronome have always ticked at speeds different than the remainder of humanity's. "Damn, was 'Up for the Down Stroke' 20 years ago?" the father of funk asks by telephone from the Detroit studio where he's producing a duo of...
DEAD HOT AND RIPE BUT WILL THE TALENTED TEMPE BAND MISS ITS HARVEST SEASON?

By Robert Baird
Oct 13, 1993

Tempe on a Friday night. Mill Avenue, the main drag, is a warm, yeasty environment, alive with frat rats, gang wanna-bes, packs of young women from the dorms and mom-and-pop tourists in the kind of ugly madras shorts that only Ohioans bring to the desert. A shaggy transient toting a...
BUFFALO TOM'S QUIET STAMPEDE

DESPITE THIER PROTESTATIONS, GUITAR BUFFS ARE MAKING A FASHION STATEMENT

By Robert Baird
Oct 6, 1993

Bill Janovitz vividly remembers the night last summer when his band's manager called with big news. "He said, 'I've got good news and bad news. The good news is you got a five-page spread in Rolling Stone. The bad news is you guys have to do this fashion type of...

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