Posts tagged Memphis

Notes from the Editor By Richard Skanse (LSM July/Aug 2014/vol. 7 – Issue ) I can’t, for the life of me, remember what song it …

By Lynne Margolis (LSM Jan 2014/vol. 7 – issue 1) Before Valerie June hit a single note that October Saturday in Zilker Park, those clustered around …

PATTY GRIFFIN American Kid New West Like most great songwriters, Patty Griffin is not known for happy tunes. But on American Kid, her New West …

SAM SAMUDIO Sam, Hard and Heavy Real Gone File this one under “Lone Star Nuggets.” In his ’60s days fronting Sam the Sham and the …

By Andrew Dansby (March/April 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 2) Todd Snider ends and begins again in 2003. The year between his first live album, Near …

By Andrew Dansby (March/April 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 2) For years Todd Snider has been based out of and inspired by his home base of …

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, …

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 …

By Eric Hisaw (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) I was a 14-year-old fledgling guitar player that night in 1987 when I piled into a …

By Richard Skanse (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) “I buried my heart, I was born again with 17 lies and one night of sin …