Email Author Roy Kasten
2013 Stories by Roy Kasten
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Victim of Love: Charles Bradley has no time to dream
published May 2, 2013
When Charles Bradley sings, the promise of something we call America becomes real. That promise may be broken, bleeding, scarred, but it's... More >>
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Kevin Buckley Emerges From the Grace Basement with Wheel Within a Wheel
published Apr 30, 2013
Kevin Buckley really isn't so hard to pin down. He's a fiddler, a guitarist, an Irish folk musician, an old-time picker, a singer, a rock & roller, a producer and one of the least pretentious and most... More >>
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Rock & Roll Whirlwind: Nikki Hill never phones it in
published April 25, 2013
It's a late Thursday afternoon at Blues City Deli in the Benton Park neighborhood, and the room is so packed no one can move, but everyone... More >>
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SXSW 2013: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phosphorescent, Natalie Maines, Richard Thompson, China Rats and More: Review and Photos
published Mar 18, 2013
This happened: Laura Cantrell, a New York-based country singer and songwriter, shared a stage with two friends, Rosie Flores and Kristi Rose, backed by Fats Kaplin and Mark Spencer, two of the finer ... More >>
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spain, Ivan & Alyosha and More: Review and Photos
published Mar 14, 2013
Kneeling down at the edge of the stage at the big outdoor venue of Stubb's in Austin, Nick Cave cradled a young man's head in his hands and sang his death-filled take on the deathless "Stagger Lee" ... More >>
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Son Volt Returns with release of new album, Honky Tonk
published February 28, 2013
"Honky-tonk" is a noun, a verb, a place, a genre and a way of life. To go "honky-tonkin'" is to leave behind one world — the drab,... More >>
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Doing the Math with Joe Stickley: Songwriting, Collaboration and His New Solo EP Wasn't It Prettyr
published Feb 14, 2013
Joe Stickley has been around. Married with two daughters, the math teacher by profession and songwriter and singer by vocation has, with each new project and clutch of songs, patiently developed int... More >>
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Keeping Kids Music Junk-Free: Grandfather Stark on the Wild Ride of the Musical Merry-Go-Round
published Jan 28, 2013
In the annals of musical genres and styles that compel a desire to do violence to one's ears and eyes and other orifices, the stuff proffered by the likes of the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon -- "fa... More >>
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Nikki Lane
published January 3, 2013
Unless you consider plaid shirts and rhinestone snaps haute couture, country-rock musicians aren't known as fashionistas. Honky-tonk hellcat... More >>
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