The mid-Nineties were a strange time in lots of ways, but few stranger than the rise of the musical movement known as “alt-country.” Hard as it is to believe nowadays, but as grunge began its inevitable but too-rapid descent from Mudhoney, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam into Candlebox and thence to a band fronted by the … More Albums A to Z: Dog Days
Last Tuesday the Minneapolis band known as the Jayhawks released their first album since 2003 (and their first with founder Mark Olson since the mid-1990s), leading me to take a break from typical Pietist Schoolman topics and propose the ten Jayhawks’ songs that would best introduce the band to a newbie. The Jayhawks are perhaps … More Radio Kings: Wilco
Your music fills my car Your voice breaks every time I’m still wonderin’ If I know who you are I hang on every line One day near the end of my time at the College of William and Mary, I tagged along with my friends Mark and Vicki to do some music shopping in Norfolk, … More Radio Kings: The Jayhawks
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