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Shooter Jennings: an heir to the honky-tonk throne resurrects country music's outlaw spirit
With a country legend like Waylon Jennings for a father, it's no surprise that Shooter Jennings is a natural-born rabble-rouser. This month the 30-year-old ......(Continue Reading) Notes from the underground - new music releases - Brief Article
FAR AND AWAY THE NOISE THAT IS MAKING ME the happiest this month has got to be the new LP by The Clone Defects. It's entitled Blood on Jupiter and it's ......(Continue Reading)Roots, Rock, Revival. And Shit Kickers to Boot - various; new music releases - Brief Article
Justin Travis Aullz may never have heard of "them," but Merle Haggard is still alive and kicking out jam after jam, this time with a record of (mostly) ......(Continue Reading)Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class. By Bill C. Malone. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. xvi ......(Continue Reading)Oldies but goodies: music libraries prove reliable earners as new releases languish
IF the music industry is in trouble, nobody tell lyricist Hal David. The partner of pop composer Burt Bacharach on such '60s toe-tappers as "Walk on By" and "Promises, Promises," David is making...(Continue Reading)
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