Articles by John F. Butland

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  Zen Guerilla

  Shadows On The Sun

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Zen Guerrilla is more guerrilla than Zen, if you ask me, although there is a certain lack of formality to be found here. Firmly built on a...

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  Victor Wooten

  Live In America

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Wooten may still be young, but he's been working in the music business for a while. He played in a band with four of his brothers when he w...

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  Keke Wyatt

  Soul Sista

  PUBLISHED Apr 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...

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  Blue Chieftains

  ...That's All

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Back in the late '80s, the Blue Chieftains were major players in the nascent NYC alt-country scene. They gigged regularly but only released...

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  Hadacol

  All In Your Head

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  The band takes their name from the patent medicine that sponsored Hank Williams' radio show, so you'd be right to expect at least a little...

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  Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers

  Best Of Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  When Beau Jocque died of a heart attack on September 8, 1999, at age 47, the world became a more sombre place. He built his music on the fo...

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  Kevin Deal

  Kiss On The Breeze

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Deal's latest, a dozen tracks produced by Dixie Chick daddy and long-time Joe Ely sideman Lloyd Maines, is an outstanding, understated LP....

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  Redd Volkaert

  No Stranger To A Tele

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Redd may look like an Amish truck driver, but the title of his second solo release is more than apt; the boy does know his way around a tel...