It’s nearly impossible to imagine now, but there really was a time—beginning in the mid-‘60s and lasting not nearly long enough—when it seemed that every city harboring a significant population of groovy young people (OK, let’s call them hippies) housed at least one club-sized space where major rock bands, or those about to be, blew […]
From one-third of the Wood Brothers to one-half of RIX, Jano Rix keeps family ties strong on his latest project, a joint with his drumming father, Luther, titled Legacy, Vol. 1. After 12 years of start-stop recording between projects, the LP brings a little bit of the Woods, a touch of the production flair Jano Rix […]
“We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee,” Willie Nelson sings through a cloud of irony thicker than the haze on his tour bus. America’s biggest nonagenarian stoner is, of course, singing Merle Haggard’s anti-marijuana screed “Okie from Muskogee.” And the joke is nearly as delicious as hearing Bobbie Nelson and Paul English playing alongside Willie once […]
