Scott H. Biram: “The Bad Testament”
SCOTT H. BIRAM The Bad Testament Bloodshot Boozily blazing away on the fringe of a fringe for well over a decade and a half by …
Posts tagged Tom Waits
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June 7, 2016 Q&A: Robert Ellis The Houston honky-tonker turned fearless genre bender on songwriting, recording, taking the high road and challenging the rules of “authenticity”
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February 19, 2016 Blind Willie Johnson: The Timeless Sound of Salvation Producer Jeffrey Gaskill, Luther Dickinson and Cowboy Junkie Michael Timmins talk about the legacy of the pioneering Texas bluesman and the making of the new tribute album, “God Don’t Never Change.”
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December 12, 2015 Q&A: Rod Picott The hard-touring troubadour looks back on a year of good “Fortune,” shares some of his favorite road music and looks ahead to exploring new writing avenues in 2016.
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Q&A: Robert Ellis The Houston honky-tonker turned fearless genre bender on songwriting, recording, taking the high road and challenging the rules of “authenticity”
By Richard Skanse All these years later, the schoolyard taunt still haunts Robert Ellis, needling at his self confidence like a splinter burrowed deep inside …
Blind Willie Johnson: The Timeless Sound of Salvation Producer Jeffrey Gaskill, Luther Dickinson and Cowboy Junkie Michael Timmins talk about the legacy of the pioneering Texas bluesman and the making of the new tribute album, “God Don’t Never Change.”
By j. poet Once you hear the voice of Blind Willie Johnson, you’ll never forget it. His stentorian growl is the essence of soul; every …
Q&A: Rod Picott The hard-touring troubadour looks back on a year of good “Fortune,” shares some of his favorite road music and looks ahead to exploring new writing avenues in 2016.
By Adam Dawson For a lot of Americana music fans, Rod Picott’s name might be most familiar for appearing in album credits as the co-writer …
The continuing education of Sarah Jarosz Grammy-nominated former child prodigy graduates with honors just in time to release her third album, Build Me Up From Bones
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) We’ll get to the music stuff in a second. But let’s start with a little …
Q&A: Bob Schneider Catching up with the king of the Live Music Capital of the World
By Richard Skanse (LSM July/Aug 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 4) “What do you want to know?” Bob Schneider strides into the greenroom at New Braunfels’ …
Kindred Spirits Rodney Crowell and author Mary Karr talk about writing their album Kin — and the friends who helped bring it to life.
By Holly Gleason (Aug/Sept 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 4) “Our first song … was Norah Jones. Then our second one was Emmylou,” says Mary Karr of the first …
Willie Nelson: “Heroes”
WILLIE NELSON Heroes Legacy Heroes isn’t a classic Willie Nelson album, but it is a very good one. It takes a while to get there, …
Mr. Record Man: Jerry Jeff Walker
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 …
Churchwood: “Churchwood”
CHURCHWOOD Churchwood Saustex Media Dense and nasty, literate and mean, Austin’s Churchwood sounds like Captain Beefheart trying to cut Tom Waits’ throat with a rusty …
