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Richmond Fontaine

Winnemucca (El Cortez)

By Joshua Green
Feb 28, 2002

Tracing the arc of Richmond Fontaine's career, you can't help but notice that while the band's sound has evolved from brash to more subdued, confessional-style country rock, its subject matter has essentially stayed the same. Fontaine's ethos was captured best by the title of a live album the band released...
Leaving the Son

With Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt behind him, Jay Farrar finds equilibrium as a solo artist.

By Joshua Green
Jan 24, 2002

"I don't really like storytelling or straight narratives," Jay Farrar says halfway into a conversation about his new solo album, Sebastopol. The co-founder of legendary alt-country band Uncle Tupelo and its celebrated offspring, Son Volt, Farrar is speaking about the process of writing music. But he pauses for a moment,...
The Haunting

Troubadour talent Richard Buckner awakens ghosts and senses on a stunning new album.

By Joshua Green
Dec 6, 2001

A couple of years ago, Richard Buckner's wife was fumbling through the Toyota truck in which Buckner regularly logs 70,000 miles a year touring, when she came across a curious-looking cassette tape and popped it into the deck. The tape held five bleak, chillingly Gothic tracks sung by her husband...
Ryan Adams, Jay Farrar

Gold (Lost Highw), Sebastopol (Artemis)

By Joshua Green
Oct 25, 2001

The rise of alt-country music in the early '90s was inextricably linked to the legendary band Uncle Tupelo, which before its demise gave birth to a lineage complicated enough to warrant a Ken Burns documentary. One of the better bands Tupelo inspired was Whiskeytown, whose lead singer Ryan Adams struck...
Lucinda Williams

Essence (Lost Highway)

By Joshua Green
Jul 26, 2001

The first thing listeners will notice about Lucinda Williams's new album, Essence, is how dramatically it differs from her 1998 Grammy-winning classic Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. The rich narratives and roadhouse swagger have given way to a starkly introspective sound that ranges from gentle repetition on "Lonely Girls"...

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