The centerpiece of Laurie Anderson’s latest album, Homeland, is a ten-minute track featuring a spoken-word monologue by her alter ego, Fenway Bergamot. Fenway, who was born in the...
Emmylou Harris’ 26th album begins with what sounds like an ode to Gram Parsons, her musical partner in the early 1970s and one of the progenitors...
Steve Earle is nothing if not adaptable. In the 1980s, he harnessed his youthful defiance to craft a rough-and-tumble sound that was sturdy enough that even mainstream...
There’s no rule against bands re-forming years or even decades after their heyday, nor any script detailing how they should go about it. Inspiration can come...
In “America!” Bill Callahan lays out some of his main influences over a lite-porn guitar riff: “Captain Kristofferson, Buck Sergeant Newbury, Leatherneck Jones, Sergeant Cash… what an...
There are two very distinct Nashvilles. Obviously, there’s the mainstream scene full of Lady Antebellum types, often referred to as “the industry.” It’s descended from the...