[ purchase Live at the Shoals Theare ]  If you know me, or have read my blog posts (and frankly, there are too many to link to), you proba...

R.B. Greaves : Take A Letter Maria   [ purchase ]  I’ve written in the past about how I started paying attention to music in 1969. as a resu...

The Band : The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show [ purchase ] The one thing that I’m most looking forward to when it becomes possible again...

It seems apt that in the week the new Richard Curtis/Danny Boyle film arrived, to continue this thread in the same vein. So, just as 'Ye...

Glossary : Headstones and Dead Leaves [ purchase ] I’m trying hard to write about bands that I haven’t written about before, and this ...

Dan Bern : Cure For AIDS [ purchase ] A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went to see Karen Finley’s show, Grabbing Pussy (based ...

[ purchase ] Tom T. Hall has been called the Nashville Storyteller.  To me, he’s the last great storyteller Nashville will probably eve...

Nanci Griffith : Armstrong [ purchase ] It isn’t a particularly profound or original observation to point out that 1969 was a pivotal ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd : Gimme Three Steps [ purchase ] A few years back, I wrote a piece for Cover Me that was timed to run on the annivers...

Golden Palominos : Boy(Go) [ purchase ] The legendary supergroups like Cream or Blind Faith or CSN&Y were attempts to join musicia...

Outfit, by The Drive-By Truckers Purchase Outfit The Drive-By Truckers are a group of novelists parading as a country rock b...

[ purchase ] I’ve written about the Drive-By Truckers many times, maybe more than any other band, in part because they are one of my fa...

The Drive-By Truckers : The Southern Thing   The Drive-By Truckers : The Three Great Alabama Icons [ purchase ] For our last theme...

Drive-By Truckers : Gravity’s Gone [ purchase ] After Thanksgiving, we at Star Maker Machine have typically run a “Leftovers” theme, l...

[ purchase a documentary ] Time to really go for it here. I first heard about GG Allin from the early Drive-By Truckers song “ The Ni...

[ purchase Southeastern ] If you have spoken to me about music over the past year or so, you probably know that my favorite album of 2013...

Drive-By Truckers : Zip City [ purchase Southern Rock Opera ] There is one member of my family who would be disappointed if I had the...