John Morthland has been writing about music since the days of electronically rechanneled stereo and duophonic sound. His name has darkened the mastheads of Rolling Stone, Creem, Country Music, Texas Monthly and many other magazines and web sites. Born in Chicago, Morthland lives in Austin, Texas, and prefers his music rootsy; his favorite color is purple and his favorite food is bacon cheeseburgers.
You don't look to Hunter for profundities. Having earned his stripes play… more »
Born on one side of the Texas-Louisiana border and raised on the other, B… more »
An acolyte of (and collaborator with) George "Harmonica" Smith, this L.A.… more »
A still-on-the-way-up Stevie Ray Vaughan produced this fabled roadhouse r… more »
Recorded late in 1979 and released weeks after Fess's January 1980 death,… more »
Here's the most powerful one-two punch from Haggard's post-"… more »
It was often declared that despite their superior musicianship, the origi… more »
This 1980 set was the Captain's next-to-last before he left the music… more »
Mingus and Dolphy represented one of the great tandems in jazz, and the m… more »
The title hits of these two albums are two of the greatest prison songs e… more »
By now Haggard's life has become pretty much an open book. "Mama… more »
There's never been a country music career anything like that of Merle Hag… more »
So you know he's an Important Artist, and you even like some of what … more »
The star-crossed Harry Choates led a life as reckless and wretched as tho… more »
When they first came to America, the Stones claimed to be bringing the bl… more »
At the time of its release in 1965, Now! seemed to mark a turning point, … more »
A Jimmy Reed tribute of some sort was long overdue; fortunately, it's… more »
These 70 sides of early country, blues and even pop, 30 of them new to CD… more »
This is the second, and considerably more consistent, album Taj Mahal… more »
Phillip Walker, who may be the most undervalued bluesman in the country, … more »
Best known for such sassy, early-70s r&b crossovers as "Trapped by a … more »
Herein resides some of the most unlikely blues ever recorded. This Dallas… more »
This one is different from most of the rest of the Document catalogue. In… more »
Rooted in rural blues and jug-band harmonica players of the '20s, the… more »
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