| 01 |
Big River |
1:57 | $1.29 | |
| 02 |
I Walk the Line |
2:33 | ||
| 03 |
Give My Love to Rose |
2:51 | $1.29 | |
| 04 |
What Is Truth |
2:37 | $1.29 | |
| 05 |
Daddy Sang Bass |
2:30 | $1.29 | |
| 06 |
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky |
3:39 | $1.29 | |
| 07 |
Restless Kid |
1:52 | $1.29 | |
| 08 |
Ben Dewberry's Final Run |
3:51 | $1.29 | |
| 09 |
Life's Railway to Heaven |
2:12 | $1.29 | |
| 10 |
It Takes One to Know Me |
3:14 | $1.29 | |
| 11 |
Moving Up |
3:23 | $1.29 | |
| 12 |
Truth |
2:18 | $1.29 |
Once the frontman for hardcore and black metal bands Teen Cthulhu and Book of Black Earth, TJ Cowgill started writing raw, stripped-down folk songs under the name King Dude (borrowed from metal hero King Diamond) in 2005. The project started just for kicks one drunken night. Even his stage name came on a whim. "My roommate and I were bored, so I picked up an acoustic guitar and started writing these songs as a joke,… more »
Well, here we are. Another Tuesday, another batch of records. Let's not waste any more time, shall we? Lotus Plaza, Spooky Action at a Distance: More eerie, filmy, jangly pop music from Deerhunter's Lockett Pundt. I never fully connected with his main gig, but this sounds great - spooky and lo-fi, the kind of thing that might have come out on Captured Tracks if it wasn't for the high-wattage indie personality behind it. RECOMMENDED Dr. John, Locked… more »
Remember that band you loved that broke up? Well, next year, they're playing Coachella. We live in an age when band reunions are bordering on passé, which can obscure the fact that a well-executed comeback is often difficult to come by. Take Limp Bizkit. That once incredibly popular band released an album this year that you probably had had no idea existed. Or on a somewhat more credible note, Duran Duran reunited and recruited famed… more »
We often think of Johnny Cash as being somber and serious - but did you also know he was a bit of a jokester? On the occasion of his 80th birthday, eMusic invites you to get to know the Man in Black...Humor. Enjoy this short video, then read the full piece, by Douglas Wolk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9sMlVxBGtk more »
My Johnny Cash moment came in November of 1994, at Ocean Way Studio inLos Angeles, a fly on the wall of a recording session for the Highwaymen, assisting Waylon Jennings in the telling of his autobiography. During a break, Johnny kindly consented to talk about the days he spent with Waylon, when they shared an apartment together in the pill-fueled frontier town that was Nashville in the mid '60s. I carefully set up a table… more »
While Johnny Cash wasn't exactly forgotten when he and Rick Rubin teamed up for the first time in 1994, he was in danger of being viewed as a relic - a living legend, to be sure, but only when you consider his back catalog. The American series became his reinvention, the great final act of his life. It was just as crucial for Rubin, who significantly broadened his horizons behind the boards. Few partnerships in… more »
Late in his career, Johnny Cash picked up a reputation for being as somber and serious as his favorite outfits. But he wasn't exactly Cormac McCarthy: From his earliest days as a writer, he had a sideline in novelty songs and parodies — some of them incredibly goofy. And while a few of his silliest tracks are long out of print ("Chicken in Black," anyone?), others were among his biggest hits, or staples of his… more »
Johnny Cash, who would have been 80 on February 26, is still everywhere in American culture. He's on TV commercials and in videos, on radio and in what's left of record stores. From 1955, when he signed with Sun Records, until 1994, when he made his first album with producer Rick Rubin, the trademark Cash boom-chicka sound of acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass and his own rich and timeless baritone voice - sometimes augmented… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
Of all rock's family tendrils, rockabilly is the one that keeps re-boppin', sporting a revival every decade or so, its coming-of-age kicks allowing each new offspring to roll its own. Guitar-heavy, emphasizing Wild Ones rebellion ("whaddya got?") and sonic dazzle (heavy on the reverb and chest vibrato), it raves and paves garage-punk (The Seeds to Damned), shockabilly (The Cramps and Chadbourne), new-wave (Stray Cats and Dire Straits), waggle-wobble (Jon Spencer and Boss Hog), Nirvana and… more »
There are some received ideas about Will Oldham, aka Palace/Palace Music/Palace Brothers/Palace Songs, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy, that just won't seem to die: that he's a "folk" artist, that he's all about "Appalachian" music, that he's an innocent, Bible-thumping soul who somehow stumbled upon the indie-rock world - that he is, in short, some kind of hick or hayseed. He doesn't exactly discourage them with his image (the crack in his voice, his burning stare,… more »
Ronald Thomas Clontle is the author of Rock, Rot & Rule, a controversial music reference book that purports to be "the ultimate argument settler" when it comes to rating an artist's worth. In the book, the uncompromising Clontle ranks thousands of artists under the three headings listed in the book's title (rock = good, rot = bad, rule = great), based on various stringent criteria and extensive surveys. With the newly updated 2007 edition of… more »
