I've been thinking a lot about Levon Helm and The Band over the past week. A few final thoughts. I've been really impressed with the outpouring of grief for the passing of Levon Helm. While his passage may not have had the pop culture impact...
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In my mind, The Band has the greatest two album stretch of any band in rock and roll history. Those first two albums are both perfect, not to mention their.
No day is complete without Soviet propaganda. This translates as "The path of talent on Capitalist shores / The path of talent on Socialist shores" And let's face it, it's.
Happy birthday/April Fool's to LGM co-founder R.M.F. Speaking of the embedded band, djw and the author happened to be at a conference in Portland for a DBT gig at the Crystal Ballroom last week, the first one I've seen since Shonna Tucker's departure. Despite two...
This is very sad. Scruggs was one of the last connections to the first days of bluegrass and one of the most innovative, not only in his style of banjo.
Just because George Jones is awesome. This is not stated often enough.
Christgau with an extended essay on one of America's most excellent and underrated bands, Wussy. Who knew anything good could come from Cincinnati?
Will Wilkinson writes about country music and, as is typical when anyone tries to connect it with politics, it's pure projection. Bathing it in the kind of pseudo-scientific data points.
It is with great sadness that I have to write this obituary for the great Alaskan songwriter Buddy Tabor. It was only with my link to his song "3 Strikes.
This seems a good time to post this song by the great and utterly unknown songwriter Buddy Tabor, who paints houses in Juneau and writes amazing songs. This is not really one of my favorites, but it does remind that Rush is a horrible person...
It's not like we don't already know that the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter is amazing. But he's also super cool for playing a big role in the American Federation.
You know the dilemma, which we may call the Polanski Problem -- what do you do when you find out that a gifted artist who has done a lot of.