Classic Americana Albums: Tom Waits “Closing Time”
A drunk props himself up at one end of a seedy bar; a down-and-out stumbles across a dirty city street in search of somewhere safe in an unfriendly city; a working girl looks blankly at the […]
A drunk props himself up at one end of a seedy bar; a down-and-out stumbles across a dirty city street in search of somewhere safe in an unfriendly city; a working girl looks blankly at the […]
We’ve all been following the spectacular direction the career of Allison Russell has taken in the last couple of years – a landmark album with ‘Outside Child‘ and a new album ‘The Returner‘ to be released […]
In last week’s Chain Gang Helen Jones served up the wonderful Jaime Wyatt, ably assisted by Shooter Jennings. For my connection this week I’ve turned to Shooter’s old man Waylon. Here he also lends a hand […]
Three hours driving due west from Boston where Massachusetts borders New York and Vermont lies North Adams. Here, in and around a 19th century textile printing factory converted into the thriving Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, […]
As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]
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