A February issue of Billboard magazine asked, “Is Nashville Ready for Bob Woodruff?” Sure, he’s from New York, but he’s not the fast-talking, big-city heathen such a query might imply. Woodruff is simply delivering country music so straight down the middle and true to his influences–guys like Hank Williams, Merle…
Controversy! Intrigue! Censorship! A guillotine! G-strings! A big snake! Keep reading and all of the above will be revealed as we delve into the vexing case of Scott Rowe’s Tribute to Alice Cooper versus the Maricopa County Fair. More than a couple letters have come in, registering disbelief and demanding…
Controversy! Intrigue! Censorship! A guillotine! G-strings! A big snake! Keep reading and all of the above will be revealed as we delve into the vexing case of Scott Rowe’s Tribute to Alice Cooper versus the Maricopa County Fair. More than a couple letters have come in, registering disbelief and demanding…
A February issue of Billboard magazine asked, “Is Nashville Ready for Bob Woodruff?” Sure, he’s from New York, but he’s not the fast-talking, big-city heathen such a query might imply. Woodruff is simply delivering country music so straight down the middle and true to his influences–guys like Hank Williams, Merle…
It could hardly be a more American story. Three citizens–a printer, a store manager, a glass blower–who, with the aid of a small but devoted army, are utterly dedicated to making their vision a reality. The three are Damon Alire; his wife, Laura; and Daniel Scott Shircliff. The fighting force…
Controversy! Intrigue! Censorship! A guillotine! G-strings! A big snake! Keep reading and all of the above will be revealed as we delve into the vexing case of Scott Rowe’s Tribute to Alice Cooper versus the Maricopa County Fair. More than a couple letters have come in, registering disbelief and demanding…
A February issue of Billboard magazine asked, “Is Nashville Ready for Bob Woodruff?” Sure, he’s from New York, but he’s not the fast-talking, big-city heathen such a query might imply. Woodruff is simply delivering country music so straight down the middle and true to his influences–guys like Hank Williams, Merle…
It could hardly be a more American story. Three citizens–a printer, a store manager, a glass blower–who, with the aid of a small but devoted army, are utterly dedicated to making their vision a reality. The three are Damon Alire; his wife, Laura; and Daniel Scott Shircliff. The fighting force…
It could hardly be a more American story. Three citizens–a printer, a store manager, a glass blower–who, with the aid of a small but devoted army, are utterly dedicated to making their vision a reality. The three are Damon Alire; his wife, Laura; and Daniel Scott Shircliff. The fighting force…
It could hardly be a more American story. Three citizens–a printer, a store manager, a glass blower–who, with the aid of a small but devoted army, are utterly dedicated to making their vision a reality. The three are Damon Alire; his wife, Laura; and Daniel Scott Shircliff. The fighting force…
If there’s one thing country-music emeritus Waylon Jennings can’t abide, it’s the money-grubbing phoniness of much of his industry. He didn’t like it in 1966 when he made the movie soundtrack Nashville Rebel. He didn’t like it in 1973 when Lonesome, Orn’ry and Mean hit the bins. And he essentially…
Ah, yes, Austin’s South by Southwest Music and Media Conference has come and gone once again. Much music was heard, many hands were shaken, backs slapped and beers drunk. Or is that beers drunken? Dranken? Whatever. Yours truly was there, and for the last four days, I did my share…
If there’s one thing country-music emeritus Waylon Jennings can’t abide, it’s the money-grubbing phoniness of much of his industry. He didn’t like it in 1966 when he made the movie soundtrack Nashville Rebel. He didn’t like it in 1973 when Lonesome, Orn’ry and Mean hit the bins. And he essentially…
Ah, yes, Austin’s South by Southwest Music and Media Conference has come and gone once again. Much music was heard, many hands were shaken, backs slapped and beers drunk. Or is that beers drunken? Dranken? Whatever. Yours truly was there, and for the last four days, I did my share…
I went to see John Doe play solo last week; he was in X, one of the best bands ever to come out of Los Angeles. After the show, I walked up and asked him something. I’d once read that he had rented a house Bukowski used to live in…
David Harrington remembers the exact moment he decided to change the face of classical music. It was Seattle, 1973. Harrington was 23 years old. He was home, listening to the radio, when his speakers suddenly jumped with the anxious squawks of stringed instruments. It sounded like a plague of insects…
David Harrington remembers the exact moment he decided to change the face of classical music. It was Seattle, 1973. Harrington was 23 years old. He was home, listening to the radio, when his speakers suddenly jumped with the anxious squawks of stringed instruments. It sounded like a plague of insects…
Consider Vanilla Ice. Four years ago, he was a car-lot attendant in Carrollton, Texas, with a passion for rap and a knack for breakdancing. He won a talent show at a local club, got a manager and concocted a look. Pompadoured, dirty-blond brush cut, chiseled cheekbones, red, white and blue…
Consider Vanilla Ice. Four years ago, he was a car-lot attendant in Carrollton, Texas, with a passion for rap and a knack for breakdancing. He won a talent show at a local club, got a manager and concocted a look. Pompadoured, dirty-blond brush cut, chiseled cheekbones, red, white and blue…
I went to see John Doe play solo last week; he was in X, one of the best bands ever to come out of Los Angeles. After the show, I walked up and asked him something. I’d once read that he had rented a house Bukowski used to live in…
About 60 years ago, a place called the Wild West came into existence. This was a raw, exciting, savage land that sometimes came in black and white, sometimes in glorious Technicolor. It was a place as vast and open as a movie screen, as far away as a living-room television…
Ben Vaughn Mono U.S.A. (Bar/None) The man who gave the world “I’m Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)” has done, if not the impossible, then the extremely challenging: Vaughn has taken 18 obscure, thoroughly bitchin’ AM-radio tunes from the glory years of the early to mid-Sixties (back when “obscure” and…
