In Profile: Jess Klein An ex-pat New Yorker rediscovers her musical faith in Texas
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) A funny thing happened on the way to completing Jess Klein’s most recent album, Learning …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) A funny thing happened on the way to completing Jess Klein’s most recent album, Learning …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Being Alejandro Escovedo’s manager can’t be the easiest job even on good days. The guy’s …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) “We’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive …” So begins the first song on …
By Holly Gleason (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) With his 6’7” frame and long ponytail, Ray Benson is one of the most recognizable …
LAURA CANTRELL No Way There From Here Thrift Shop Recordings Over her five albums, New York-via-Nashville alt-country songbird Laura Cantrell has evolved steadily from savvy …
By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) It’s a late afternoon in the Big Apple, the tail end of a particularly …
JESS KLEIN Behind a Veil Motherlode Records Like tourists in search of the largest urban bat colony in the world, singer-songwriters in search of new …
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 (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 …
By Richard Skanse (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) In the 2006 Mike Judge film Idiocracy, ordinary average guy and cryogenics guinea pig Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) …