Mandy Rowden: “When That Day Comes”
MANDY ROWDEN When That Day Comes Howlin’ Dog Records Sometimes a twang runs so deep that it sounds as if it might extend not just …
MANDY ROWDEN When That Day Comes Howlin’ Dog Records Sometimes a twang runs so deep that it sounds as if it might extend not just …
By Richard Skanse Considering that there’s enough cocaine on her latest album to fuel Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac, it’s somewhat of a surprise (and/or relief) to hear …
By Holly Gleason I was wearing brand new Prada velvet Mary Janes, with saddle leather straps, and a big velvet, men’s cut shirt from back …
HARD WORKING AMERICANS Rest In Chaos Melvin/Thirty Tigers After the self-titled cover romp of 2014’s Hard Working Americans, featuring songs by such Americana catnipsters as Hayes …
By Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) You would think, after spending nearly 40 years as an integral member of Tom Petty & the …
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Lucinda Williams Thirty Tigers/Lucinda Williams Music Scour the extensive liners accompanying this deluxe, 25th-anniversary reissue of Lucinda Williams’ self-titled 1988 third album, including …
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) The Cliff’s Notes version of Thieving Birds’ origin is that the members of the Fort …
COURT YARD HOUNDS Amelita Columbia Long before Natalie Maines turned the Dixie Chicks into a runaway freight train without brakes, they were a roots band …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM July/Aug 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 4) No matter how forthcoming an artist is, sometimes what they don’t tell you is just …