Issue Articles
The Mavericks: Built to Last
“This is a very masculine record,” says Cuban/American Mavericks frontman Raul Malo with profound understatement. “There’s a little bravado in there, I’ll say that. It’s the bullfighter with the flower […]
Teena Marie: Another Bit of Square Biz
I remember the first time I went there,” recalls soul/ funk pioneer Teena Marie of her earliest engagement with New Orleans. “All I could think was, ‘Why does it feel […]
Truth and Water
Somewhere south of Nashville, in a great big hardwood ballroom of a recording studio with baffles and warrens of isolation booths, it’s business as usual. Some very competent musicians have […]
Allison Moorer, Mockingbird (New Line)
Her voice lifts, husky yet lighter than ether… These are not her songs, yet they are exhaled as something from deep within her veins. For Oscar-nominated chanteuse Allison Moorer, Mockingbird […]