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2000 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Diane Craig

  published December 28, 2000

  Diane Craig's Fortunes Told is a little bit country, a little bit bluegrass and all the way wonderful. Featuring 11 songs of pure south... More >>

• Street-Fighting Man

  published December 28, 2000

  It's been a hell of a ride for Roy Head, the South Texas-bred force of nature who recorded the Duke/Peacock label's biggest pop hit, mentored a... More >>

• Playbill

  published December 21, 2000

  Damon Bramblett, the pride of Bangs, Texas, is a tall drink of water with a voice like Johnny Cash. Comparisons to The Man in Black are utterly... More >>

• Reckless Kelly

  published December 7, 2000

  Reckless Kelly's third sampling of self-described "hick rock," The Day, leans a little more toward the rock side of that terse description.... More >>

• Guy Forsyth

  published November 23, 2000

  The cover art of Austin blues-rock multi-instrumentalist Guy Forsyth's release Steak accurately portrays the music within. A beaming... More >>

• Lost in the '90s

  published November 16, 2000

  The gaunt, goateed Beaver Nelson looks like one of Dostoyevsky's tortured heroes -- a Raskolnikov in shit-kicker boots and a button-up western... More >>

• Born Again

  published November 9, 2000

  Steve Earle entered the '90s with a monkey on his back and left them with a tiger by the tail. Where 1990 found him engaging in his own slow,... More >>

• Wayne Toups

  published November 2, 2000

  It seems every American region has its own version of Springsteen. As always, the Gotham media sees fit to describe to the outside world its... More >>

• Bert Wills

  published October 26, 2000

  After a flirtation with surf music on 1998's Pavones Sunset, veteran bluesman Bert Wills returns to his tried-and-true formula with Tell... More >>

• Duke Robillard

  published October 19, 2000

  Rhode Island-born Duke Robillard was just 19 when he co-founded Roomful of Blues in 1967. The succeeding 33 years have seen Robillard wander far... More >>

• Out of Townes

  published October 19, 2000

  Possessed of both a wild streak and a wry sense of humor, Rex "Wrecks" Bell would seem the perfect candidate to lead his own band. Yet for most of... More >>

• Still Howlin'

  published September 28, 2000

  "Omar" Kent Dykes felt the blues once. At a Mississippi VFW hall more than a quarter of a century ago, a teenage Dykes was performing with... More >>

• Benefit for Pete Mayes and Hamp Simmons

  published September 21, 2000

  Mayes-Simmons BenefitAs doctor bills pile up for two Houston blues titans, Pete Mayes and... More >>

• Holy Moses

  published September 14, 2000

  Aufheben is the name of Moses Guest's new label. The term is German for (roughly) "creative maintenance." Basically it means onward with only the... More >>

• Pepper Shakers

  published September 7, 2000

  New Orleans native Jelly Roll Morton, the self-described inventor of jazz, once said, "[If] you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your... More >>

• Bravehearts

  published August 31, 2000

  Scotland's Celtic-folk agglomeration the Battlefield Band fairly defines the term "warhorse." Through its 30 years and 26 albums, the group has... More >>

• Von Trapped

  published August 31, 2000

  Amid all the ethnic musical programs that hide in the corners of Houston's radio dial is one curio: a show devoted to America's biggest and nearly... More >>

• Mornings with Woody

  published August 24, 2000

  Around 1995, the Gavin company, a radio research firm, introduced the format Americana. The name itself led to the obvious question, What the hell... More >>

• Americana Psychos

  published August 3, 2000

  Early in his career, the late Townes Van Zandt was tagged as a "songwriter's songwriter." As best as can be reckoned, this glib and overused... More >>

• Bedeviled Hams

  published July 13, 2000

  As the old notion goes, for every overzealous female fan -- whom you may know in technical terms as a "groupie" -- there is an envious male fan or... More >>

• Behind the Music (City)

  published July 6, 2000

  As anyone who has ever lived there knows, Nashville is two places. There is the Nashville that the world knows and -- well, perhaps "loves" is a... More >>