Scott H. Biram: “The Bad Testament”
SCOTT H. BIRAM The Bad Testament Bloodshot Boozily blazing away on the fringe of a fringe for well over a decade and a half by …
SCOTT H. BIRAM The Bad Testament Bloodshot Boozily blazing away on the fringe of a fringe for well over a decade and a half by …
By Richard Skanse All these years later, the schoolyard taunt still haunts Robert Ellis, needling at his self confidence like a splinter burrowed deep inside …
By j. poet Once you hear the voice of Blind Willie Johnson, you’ll never forget it. His stentorian growl is the essence of soul; every …
By Adam Dawson For a lot of Americana music fans, Rod Picott’s name might be most familiar for appearing in album credits as the co-writer …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) We’ll get to the music stuff in a second. But let’s start with a little …
By Richard Skanse (LSM July/Aug 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 4) “What do you want to know?” Bob Schneider strides into the greenroom at New Braunfels’ …
By Holly Gleason (Aug/Sept 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 4) “Our first song … was Norah Jones. Then our second one was Emmylou,” says Mary Karr of the first …
WILLIE NELSON Heroes Legacy Heroes isn’t a classic Willie Nelson album, but it is a very good one. It takes a while to get there, …
By Richard Skanse (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) By the time Jerry Jeff Walker came sliding sideways into Luckenbach, the 31-year-old freewheeling drifter already …
CHURCHWOOD Churchwood Saustex Media Dense and nasty, literate and mean, Austin’s Churchwood sounds like Captain Beefheart trying to cut Tom Waits’ throat with a rusty …