By Lynne Margolis When Jimmy LaFave passed away on the night of May 21, 2017, his life was chronicled in respectful obituaries; they reviewed his …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) Don’t call Steve Earle’s 1995 album Train a Comin’ a “comeback.” Oh, it certainly met …
By Ray Wylie Hubbard (March/April 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 2) Siddhartha Guatama was born around 560 B.C., below the Himalayan foothills. I was born around …
By John T. Davis (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) Jerry Jeff Walker is turning 70. Who’d of thunk it? Certainly no one who watched …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) Ruthie Foster didn’t actually make her new Let It Burn album with her hands tied behind her …
By BettySoo (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) I was a 26-year-old proud homeowner, newly married and in graduate school when I decided to “try …
By Mike Ethan Messick (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Hard as it may be to believe in the hyper-connected, niche-friendly world of today, there …
Discovering Woody Guthrie By Terri Hendrix (LSM Aug/Sept 2010/vol. 3 – Issue 5) “I lived in a place called Okfuskee And I had a little …
By Richard Skanse November 2005 In one way or another, Jerry Jeff Walker’s always done his own thing. Back in the early ’70s, when the …
By Richard Skanse February 2003 If Susan Gibson chose to never write another song in her life, she’s already earned her footnote in the annals …
