Articles by John F. Butland
Southern Rock Opera
Southern Rock Opera
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
A rock opera about Lynyrd Skynyrd, it has to be some tongue in cheek, wink-wink exercise in irony, right? Wrong. The Drive By Truckers have...
Keke Wyatt
Soul Sista
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002
Wyatt, if you can't guess by the ultra-generic title, is yet another hip-hop diva wannabe. Early in her career she was in a nascent version...
Phil Lee
You Should Have Known Me Then
PUBLISHED May 1, 2002
I'd say it was a better than even money bet that Phil Lee has been listening to his Dylan records lately. After the Jerry Lee-fuelled openi...
Keith Sykes
Don't Count Us Out
PUBLISHED May 1, 2002
Sykes has had songs recorded by Jimmy Buffet, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, the Judds, Rosanne Cash, and John Prine, to name a few. He's re...
Wooldridge Brothers
The Unreel Hits
PUBLISHED May 1, 2002
It takes balls to open an LP with a line like, "it was a dark and stormy night." The Wooldridges, Scott and Brian, proceed to string togeth...
Million Yen
Blue Television Windows
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002
This Chicago quartet blasts out of the blocks with "Chemical Drip, a searing blast of tasty power pop. They call it heavy pop, and it is h...
Smogtown
Domesticviolenceland
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002
It still amazes me how back in the 60s and early 70s all those white British boys were trying to sing like grizzled, black Americans, and...
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Collection
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002
Collection assembles tracks from TMGEs five LPs and two EPs and, in the interest of value for money, Im obliged to point out that it only...
