Articles by Jason Schneider

Calexico

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2012

After forging a sound synonymous with their hot and dusty Arizona home base, Joey Burns, John Convertino, et al., have taken a side-trip on...

Bob Dylan

Tempest

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

Out of Bob Dylan's countless achievements throughout his 50-year career, the greatest is how he's consistently fended off all attempts to k...

Translator

Outlaw Country

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

What Is It? This movement originated in the early '70s in Texas, where established artists like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings had reloc...

Bill Wilson

Ever Changing Minstrel

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2012

In 1973, for every Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits there were hundreds of Bill Wilsons: young American singer-songwriters following the tra...

Catherine Irwin

Little Heater

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2012

One thing that makes the history of country music endlessly intriguing is the largely unknown figures that wrote songs made famous by other...

ZZ Top

La Futura

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2012

With '70s rock back in vogue, thanks in no small part to Rolling Stone throwing all of its weight behind the Black Keys and that glorified...

The Avett Brothers

The Carpenter

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2012

The most striking thing about the Avett Brothers' previous album, I And Love And You (the first one in their extensive catalogue that most...

Calexico

Algiers

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2012

After forging a sound synonymous with their hot and dusty Arizona homebase, Joey Burns, John Convertino, et al., have taken a side-trip on...