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 Richard Skanse Regardless of whether or not Hayes Carll wins that “Best Country Song” Grammy he’s up for in February (for Lee Ann Womack’s recording of “Chances …
COURT YARD HOUNDS Amelita Columbia Long before Natalie Maines turned the Dixie Chicks into a runaway freight train without brakes, they were a roots band …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) In between the platinum-certified Outlaw uprising of the ’70s and the scruffy, punk-infused alt-country movement of …
By Michael Devers (LSM June/July 2010/vol. 3 – issue 4) Grabbing some time to speak with the sisters Erwin (Martie Maguire and Emily Robison) used …
