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John Prine
John Prine is one of those master singer-songwriters whose biggest hits were for other people—“Angel of Montgomery” for Bonnie Raitt and “You Never Call Me By My Name” for David […]
Christmas Concerts
In this month’s cover story, we highlight just a handful of the Christmas concerts that take place in New Orleans in December. There are more than we can list here, […]
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys’ Attack & Release suggests that the blues-rock duo was finding its guitar-and-drums lineup constraining as they and producer Danger Mouse gave their songs a full-band treatment. The […]
Neko Case
Neko Case sings as if she has a secret. Whether on record or live, she’s beguilingly enigmatic, whether she’s onstage laughing at private jokes with backing vocalist/foil Kelly Hogan or […]
Camera Obscura
“I spent a week in a dusty library” is how “French Navy,” the opening single from Scottish group Camera Obscura’s My Maudlin Career, starts. It sounds like the perfect place […]
Os Mutantes
“We were kids,” Sergio Dias Baptista says. “I was 16 when we had a coup d’etat here in 1964. Everything changed and there was repression. Of course, we would fight […]
The Minus 5 with Steve Wynn and the Baseball Project
Scott McCaughey says of his band, the Minus 5, that they “never wanted to get too serious, just an anything-goes kind of deal.” That philosophy has led to a revolving […]
Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked has always been opinionated. During a battle with Polygram Records, she even cited the 13th Amendment (yes, the one that prohibits slavery) to get out of her record […]
