Articles by John F. Butland

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  Billy Eli

  Trailer Park Angel

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  Eli is another Texas boy writing songs about beautiful losers and smearing the lines between rock and country while doing it. It’s not exac...

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  Hadacol

  All In Your Head

  PUBLISHED Mar 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 Mar 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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  Alison Pipitone

  Shake It Around

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  The first thing you notice about Pipitone, apart from a resemblance to Courtney Cox, is that she has the same sort of sexy and sensuous hus...

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  Keith Sykes

  Don't Count Us Out

  PUBLISHED Mar 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...

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  Wooldridge Brothers

  The Unreel Hits

  PUBLISHED Mar 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...

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  Airport 5

  Tower in the Fountain of Sparks

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  A while back I was a big GBV fan, but the releases started coming so fast and furiously that I literally couldn’t keep up with them or even...

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  Tobin Sprout

  Demos & Outtakes

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

  A while back I was a big GBV fan, but the releases started coming so fast and furiously that I literally couldn’t keep up with them or even...