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Social Distortion Channels Marty Stuart & Joe Ely
By Don Jacobson
Cowpunks all.Posted on July 14, 2008
Hey Bo Diddley
By The Beachwood Hambone Affairs Desk
The beat that will go on.Posted on June 02, 2008
Howlin' Dave: Hippie Punk Legend
By Don Jacobson
Howlin' Dave was the Wolfman Jack of the Phillipines who dominated both the hippie and punk eras. By all accounts, he ruled.Posted on June 02, 2008
Juno & Feist
By Don Jacobson
Canadian music fans, when they decide to support their own, consistently come up with better choices than we do.Posted on April 10, 2008
Chatham County vs. David Allen Coe
By Don Jacobson
Exactly when did Tom Petty become Chuck Norris?Posted on February 04, 2008
Jason Ringenberg's Rainbow Stew
By Don Jacobson
The music seems sparkling and too good to be true, yet it's still got one foot in a slow-moving freight running past a hobo jungle somewhere down around Carbondale.Posted on December 24, 2007
The Steve Marriott Saga: How the Mob, Peter Frampton and Daddy Osbourne Snuffed Out The Small Faces and Humble Pie
By Don Jacobson
A musical career at the nexus of the Mob, Peter Frampton and Sharon Osbourne's father illustrates why the demise of the record industry can't come soon enough.Posted on November 26, 2007
The Beachwood Country All-Stars
By Steve Rhodes
All-Time Country & Western Hits found at a Beachwood tag sale.Posted on November 07, 2007
Shooter Jennings Walks This Way
By Don Jacobson
Mixing the hoary, soul-satisfying squalls of guitar rock with the emotional plaintiveness of a lap-steel and a fiddle.Posted on October 24, 2007
Levon's Dirt Farm
By Don Jacobson
A gaunt, wrinkly old man who, good God, is Levon Helm is releasing his first record in a quarter century.Posted on September 19, 2007
Billy Bob Country
By Don Jacobson
Billy Bob Thornton is (almost) the real deal.Posted on August 15, 2007
Roky's Revival
By Don Jacobson
Maybe because of the many years he spent blasting white noise from his TVs to drown out the voices in his head, Roky Erickson has somehow preserved his utterly unique singing voice.Posted on July 23, 2007
Save Internet Radio
By Don Jacobson
I suffered mightily in my younger days when the suits took over the airwaves and shrunk the playlists to the point where you could inscribe them on the head of a pin. Now they're going to do it me (and you) again.Posted on June 27, 2007
Reunion Blues
By Don Jacobson
A far better reunion tour than the Police makes a stop at Schuba's. What the Vee-Jay label means to you. And why Black Music Month is a disservice to black artists.Posted on June 09, 2007
Here Lies Rock 'n Roll
By Don Jacobson
BBC Television writes rock 'n roll's obituary.Posted on May 21, 2007
Alt Clear Channel
By Don Jacobson
It would be the ultimate irony if Clear Channel re-introduced the kind of radio it destroyed in the first place. But there's a glimmer of hope emanating from Texas that just such a thing is on the horizon.Posted on May 01, 2007
Rockie Country High
By Don Jacobson
Hey, if it feels like you're kicking Alan Jackson in the ass, and if makes your soul feel better, then it's alt-country!Posted on March 29, 2007
Obit: Kirk Rundstrom, Hardcore Hillbilly
By Don Jacobson
His brand of bluegrass was the first I had heard that so decisively made the leap that allowed rock fans such as myself the license to even think of delving into old-timey country music.Posted on February 27, 2007
Dylan's Grammy Museum
By Don Jacobson
While Bob Dylan continues to do fine work, it's hardly the best the music industry has to offer. But then, neither are any of the Grammy winners.Posted on February 12, 2007
Smoke, Mirrors and Backyard Tire Fires
By Don Jacobson
Backyard Tire Fire can move from balls-out, Slobberbone-style Southern boogie-blasting to nuanced, poppy Tweedy-ism in a heartbeat.Posted on January 21, 2007
Del Reeves' Truckin' Country
By Don Jacobson
Maybe truckin' country had that rock edge because truckers got around a bit more.Posted on January 09, 2007
Up Against the Wall, Indie Record Label!
By Don Jacobson
Jerry Jeff Walker is a redneck motherfucker after all.Posted on November 29, 2006
Kinky's Kosmic Kountry
By Don Jacobson
Despite his reputation as a musical satirist, Kinky Friedman is more than just a joke. There's songwriting meat on those funnybones.Posted on October 23, 2006
Lounge Axis of Evil
By Don Jacobson
The death of CBGB is reminiscent of the murder of Lounge Ax - and the continual assault true rock culture still finds itself under in this city.Posted on October 17, 2006
Tommy Keene's Pop Power
By Don Jacobson
Is power pop dead - or just dying?Posted on September 29, 2006
According to The Hoyles
By Don Jacobson
On his new record, Lee Rocker exceeds his accomplishments with the legendary Stray Cats.Posted on September 16, 2006
Derailed by Arthur
By Don Jacobson
A semi-obscure singer-songwriter whose souful style influenced John Lennon reappears on the alt-country scene.Posted on August 21, 2006
Rock a Billy Goat
By Don Jacobson
What sort of hardhearted asshole, Perdita asks, wouldn't be charmed by half a stuffed goat in a paper hat and a feather boa? I mean, really.Posted on July 31, 2006
Yonder Mountain String Band Way
By Don Jacobson
It's true that the strings of the Yonder Mountain String Band are connected to amplifiers on this record. But that's a good thing.Posted on June 18, 2006
Cobras Busy Livin'
The Beachwood Country Punk Affairs Desk
The Detroit Cobras are infinitely cooler than precious Will Frickin' Palace Prince Oldham, even if they are appearing at the North Michigan Avenue Virgin store.Posted on June 15, 2006
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