Limes is the long-running project of Memphis musician Shawn Cripps with regular running buddy Harlan T. Bobo and a loose collective of Memphis garage mechanics such as Ross Johnson, Paul Buchignani, Alicja Trout, and Bruce Saltmarsh. Rhinestone River, the third lp from Limes, out now … Read More →
Backtracks takes a look at songs that were a meaningful part of los grillos past and have recently come back to los grillos in whatever random ways such things happen–in a movie, in a bar, in a dream, or just in the head for no apparent reason. … Read More →
James Blackshaw is primarily a guitar player with a penchant for Fahey-esque, freak-folky, guitar wizardry. Blackshaw’s latest release, All Is Falling, out August 24 on Young God Records, is another testament to his accomplished musicianship that travels in a new direction, in terms of the musical foundations … Read More →
Esteban Jordan, accordion and conjunto pioneer, left this mortal coil on Friday, August 13. He was 71.* The wild, and wildly innovative, “El Parche” (The Patch) was called the “invisible genius of Texas accordion music” by New York Times critic Ben Ratliff and was considered … Read More →
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan. Hawk.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan–sultry, sweet-voiced angel of the morning and weathered, gravel-throated devil of the dawn–are back with their third collection of blue velvet Americana, Hawk, out today on Vanguard Records. Since their 2006 debut, Ballad of the Broken Seas, the duo has been compared … Read More →