Issue Articles
Forest’s Own Brand of “Hell”
The blues imply a story. Every “hurts so bad” lyric is a moment caused by something that happened in the past; someone or something made the singer hurt that bad. […]
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
When Frank Sinatra hosted the Welcome Home Elvis television special in the Spring of 1960, he was trying to maintain a measure of hip with teenagers by rubbing a little […]
Grown Up All Wrong and Great Pop Things
Nothing starts an argument like a list. When the American Film Institute (AFI) announced what it considered the Hundred Greatest Movies last May, critics and moviegoers pounced on the list, […]
Hip Hop America by Nelson George
Last Fall, Charles Aaron wrote, “What the White Boy Means When He Says Yo” for the pierceder-than-thou Spin, The piece was an excellent exploration of the role hip hop plays […]
Mister Satan’s Apprentice & Obituary Cocktail
When you’re trying to hustle down Royal Street, it’s easy to curse street musicians as musical roach motels for unsuspecting tourists. The crowds they attract slow you down, and you […]
Hank, Elvis and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride by Horace Logan with Bill Sloan
In “The Death of Country Music,” country-punks The Waco, Brothers sing, “we spill some blood on the ashes/ Of the bones of the Jones and the Cashes.” The song laments […]
The Kingdom of Zydeco by Michael Tisserand & Time Out: New Orleans
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Making People’s Music: Moe Asch & Folkway Records by Peter D. Goldsmith
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RockaBilly:A Forty-Year Journey by Billy Poore
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