Todd Snider: “Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3”
TODD SNIDER Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers In tales that may or may not have been true in his pleasantly rambling, comically …
Posts tagged Elvis Presley
In Memoriam: Scotty Moore, Dec. 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016 The man behind the King — and the guitar that changed the world
By Bill Ramsey In the nervous days that led up to what would become Elvis Presley’s 1968 Comeback Special — a televised affair Colonel Parker …
Elvis Presley: “The Album Collection”
ELVIS PRESLEY The Album Collection RCA Legacy With the general devaluation of music in the digital era, some of the most important music ever made …
Q&A: Paul Thorn Pricking consciences — and funnybones — with "Too Blessed to be Stressed"
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Though Paul Thorn didn’t release his first album until 1997, it’s not a stretch to …
Q&A: Billy Joe Shaver “Long in the tooth” but strong as ever, the unstoppable and seemingly indestructible old chunk of coal talks love, loss, and faith.
By Holly Gleason (LSM July/Aug 2014/vol 7 – issue 4) Legend has always cloaked Billy Joe Shaver: As an 8-year-old living with his grandmother, singing …
The Georges: “Cool Your Heels”
THE GEORGES Cool Your Heels Vinyphone Records Rockabilly ain’t new, but in the right hands neither is it broke or worn out. Some things, done …
Mr. Record Man: Johnny Cash (The Columbia Years)
By Eric Hisaw (LSM Jan/Feb 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 1) Johnny Cash came roaring out of an Arkansas cotton patch, a Jesus-conflicted, lanky black-haired rebel, …
Mr. Record Man: ZZ Top
By Greg Ellis (Oct/Nov 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 5) The mere fact that you are reading this magazine begs an assumption that you have an …
Mr. Record Man: Gram Parsons
By Eric Hisaw (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Exiting this mortal coil at the tender age of 26, Cecil Ingram Connor, known to the …
Like a Rolling Stone How does it feel to blow sax on some of the most famous tracks in rock ’n' roll history? Ask Lubbock's own Bobby Keys
By Eric Hisaw (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) Bobby Keys, once called the “ruby-lipped essence of Lubbock, Texas” on an LP jacket, stood pokerfaced …
