Issue Articles
Hammond and Nauman Scott: The Blues Brothers
It’s the early morning hours in a smoky hole-in-the-wall dive. Inside, a raw, barebones blues band digs into a deep, gutsy groove and pours the soul over clanking beer bottles […]
All the Info You Need For Small Talk During the Holiday Party Season
Okay kids, it’s rockin’ time. Let’s see what holiday goodies we have in the old Spare Parts bag. What’s this? A knotted pair of peekaboo fishnet pantyhose—must be left over […]
Blues News December 1991
December marks the anniversary of one of the first known written references to having “the blues”: in 1862, Charlotte Porten, a free black woman, wrote those words in her diary […]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, UNO Lakefront Arena, October 25, 1991
He didn’t come right out and say it, but if Tom Petty had had to sum up his attitude about being onstage, it would probably have been along the lines […]
Stuff We Liked in ’91
Everybody knows that year-end Top 10 lists are unfair (who, after all, has heard it all?), but we still love to read them. So we had the staff and a […]
The Year of the Wolf: Walter “Wolfman” Washington
When we began discussing possible covers for our 1991 year-end issue, the choice quickly became obvious. Only one act managed to release not one, but two strong albums of decidedly […]
Spare Parts November 1991
Well, it’s November in New Orleans and the turkeys are getting nervous. I’ll be spending Thanksgiving in Germany this year, on the road with Lydia Lunch, selling t-shirts and assorted […]
Chris Whitley Lives with the Law
Out on a range in a season too soonNo electric light up in my roomWith a dark skin woman I’m naked and saneYou could learn about the world in an […]
John Campbell: One Believer
Shadows dance in liquid pools of light spilled by candles, dozens of them, burning steadily into this midsummer night. Ancient skulls stare down at us with hollow-eyed serenity. And though […]
