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 Scott Schinder (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Alejandro Escovedo’s new Big Station continues the incredible creative roll that began with 2006’s The Boxing …
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 …
SHURMAN Inspiration Teletone Records As admittedly lazy critical adjectives go, “Stonesy” is only slightly less overused than “Beatlesque.” But “Facey” just doesn’t look or sound …
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 …
BECK & CAUTHEN Sons of Fathers www.beckandcauthen.com Though Beck & Cauthen’s debut album was produced by Lloyd Maines and features string-wizard Corby Schaub (Ryan Bingham …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) If the Duo/Group of the Year nominees were the only acts performing at the 10th …
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Mercy Lounge & The Cannery Ballroom One Cannery Row, Nashville, Tenn., 37203 615-251-3020 / www.mercylounge.com …
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 …
THE HICKOIDS Kicking It With the Twits Saustex Media Listening to the Hickoids swagger their way through the Elton John/Bernie Taupin chestnut “Benny and the …
