JOHN HENEGHAN tugged a large shellac disc from its brown paper sleeve, placed it on a turntable and gently nudged a needle into place. Behind him, in the corner of his East Village apartment, sat 16 wooden crates, each filled with meticulously ...
GREGG ALLMAN (Friday, Saturday and Thursday) A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman has long provided much of that group’s heart: although his older brother, Duane, who died in 1971, was the progenitor of the Allmans’ most emulated ...
Delta blues, maybe more than any other genre of American music, is rooted in time and place. Although scholars and critics still bicker about the music’s precise parameters, nearly all agree it was conceived and realized in an almond-shaped wedge of ...
Lots of indie rock bands are naming themselves after woodland mammals these days, but Fleet Foxes actually sing about the forest. The band, from Seattle, specializes in what Gram Parsons called “cosmic American music,” and its melodic country-rock ...
Any proper insomniac can recite the consequences of a few frantic, sheet-twisting nights: lethargy gives way to elation, reason falters, your teeth start to throb, and a vague sense of uneasiness gradually mutates into weird, wild-eyed paranoia. Wolf ...
For a Southern-rock outfit with epic hair and a Kentucky pedigree, My Morning Jacket is uniquely squirrelly. Evil Urges, the band's fifth studio album, flits purposefully from genre to genre, toying with bits of prog, soul, disco, alt-country, and ...
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