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Yearly Archives: 2013
Nick And The Ovorols – Telegraph Taboo
Nick And The Ovorols waste no time in getting down to the nitty, gritty, greasy bizness on their debut studio album Telegraph Taboo. After a second or two of frontman Nick Peraino’s guitar clearing its throat, “Take The V Train” fires up and gets underway, lurching like a half-drunk brontosaurus. When Peraino lets fly with […]
Aaron Neville – My True Story
Aaron Neville may be turning 72 this year, but you’d never know it by his voice. Sounding as smooth and silky and soulful as ever, Neville leads an all-star band of players through 12 tracks of luscious doo-wop goodness on his new album My True Story – an album guaranteed to put the rama-lama-ding-dong and […]
Music and words flow from Deer Isle lobsterman
I can write a decent review, interview, or feature about someone else. I can make up foolish stuff at the drop of a hat – the weirder the better. But I don’t do a very good job of tooting my own horn. Fortunately there are nice folks like Jenny Begin in the world, who wrote […]
Aaron Neville Tells My True Story
Well, I hope Aaron Neville’s happy. First, his rendition of “Tell It Like It Is” has been responsible for more steamy moments since 1967 than full moons and power outages combined. And then there’s the fact that The Neville Brothers – Aaron and brothers Art, Charles, and Cyril – have been making hips shake to […]
Neil Young FAQ: Everything Left To Know About The Iconic And Mercurial Rocker by Glen Boyd
Ticked off because you were going to buy your favorite Rustie a copy of Neil Young’s memoir Waging Heavy Peace for Christmas and you just found out they already nabbed a copy (having pre-ordered it a year or so ago)? Fret not – a solution is at hand. Seattle-based music journalist Glen Boyd wasn’t lying […]
Another Nightmare Gig From Hell: Musicians’ Tales Of Wonder And Woe – by Nick Zelinger & Tammy Brackett
Brokedown vans. Snowstorms. Floods. Brokedown vans. Clueless sound techs. Swarms of beetles. Brokedown vans. Vomiting vocalists. Drunken brides. And let’s not forget: brokedown van heaters. They’re all in here – and more; all the makings of the classic horrorshow for the working musician, or as the title of the book says, Another Nightmare Gig From […]
Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition – White Buffalo
In 2011, I wrote a review of Jimbo Mathus’ Confederate Buddha album, referring to the music on it as “rooted deeply in Mathus’ beloved Mississippi Hill Country, but the messages contained within the dozen tracks came from – and reach out to – some place far, far away.” My feelings about Confederate Buddha still stand […]
Lonesome Shack – City Man
Wumpwumpwumpwumpwumpwump go the drums; the guitar makes a noise like it’s hocking up a ball of Chesterfield phlegm; karangarangarang goes a beer bottle as it hits the floor – and off goes Lonesome Shack, ripping up “White Lightning”, the opening track on their new live album City Man. Recorded in April of 2012 at Seattle, […]
Doing That Rooster Rag With Little Feat
The good folks at Hittin’ The Note magazine (get yerself on over to www.hittinthenote.com and subscribe!) have been kind enough to provide a download of my recent feature interview with Little Feat’s Bill Payne and Fred Tackett. We had a ball talking about the new Rooster Rag album, songwriting with the great Robert Hunter, painful […]
Philip Cushway Discusses The Art Of The Dead
Big and beautiful, Art Of The Dead (Soft Skull Press) is not just another coffee table book for Deadheads. It truly is – as the subtitle reads – “A Celebration Of The Artists Behind The American Rock Poster Movement”, compiled by longtime poster collector (and printer) Philip Cushway. Though he is no longer an art […]