The Drive-By Truckers’ career can be broken into three stages (so far), but one thing has never changed. From 1996-2000, they were a rowdy rock ’n’ roll band that was feeling out who it was, equally unafraid of semi-sentimental narratives and cheap jokes all dealing with the south they grew up in. “Buttholeville” was band [...]
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Tony Joe White, That On the Road Look Live (Rhino Handmade Records)
September 1, 2010 – 12:58 am
Tony Joe White has made a career out of being laconic, and his matter-of-fact delivery lent a homespun truthfulness to race relations in “Willie and Laura Mae Jones,” a subtle wink to “Polk Salad Annie” and a mournful quality to “Rainy Night in Georgia.” When he dueted with Shelby Lynne on “Can’t Go Back Home,” [...]
The Revivalists, Vital Signs (Independent)
May 1, 2010 – 12:51 am
There’s a fine line between a jam band and a band that jams. New Orleans’ the Revivalists fall into the latter category. The group burst onto the scene in 2008 and honed their chops in 2009, expanding their live set as well as their songbook in the process. After spending some time in the studio, [...]
The Allman Brothers Band: Every Picture Tells a Story
May 1, 2010 – 12:17 am
See more of Smith’s rare, vintage photos of the Allman Brothers Band here. You are Sidney Smith. It’s the fall of 1970. You are a 16-year-old Fortier High School student and you’ve wanted to be a rock star photographer for ever since you can remember. Your old man, an amateur photographer, died, leaving you with [...]
Slideshow: Rare, Vintage Allman Brothers Band Photos
April 20, 2010 – 2:00 am
In our May 2010 Jazz Fest Bible issue, Randy Savoie reports on the illuminating memories photographer Sidney Smith has of his time as a teenager photographing the Allman Brothers Band. There are some crazy anecdotes in that story, but we also wanted to pass along some more great photographs from Smith that didn’t make it [...]
Hill Country Revue, Make a Move (Razor & Tie)
August 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
When the North Mississippi Allstars’ guitarist Luther Dickinson joined the Black Crowes on tour in 2008, his bandmates, brother Cody and bassist Chris Chew, hatched up a homespun conspiracy of their own, the Hill Country Revue, a midnight blues band with an intense affinity for the sounds of North Mississippi and an appetite for southern [...]
The Allman Brothers Band’s Warren Haynes: Fest Focus
May 1, 1993 – 12:01 am
On this, Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes’ second trip to the Jazz Fest, he’ll be working when he’s playing. Over the two-and-a-half days he’ll be in town, he’s scheduled to perform three times—as a member of the Allman Brothers Band at the Municipal Auditorium on Friday, April 23, and then the next day at the [...]
