Email Author Roy Kasten

2000 Stories by Roy Kasten

• Kevn Kinney with Webb Wilder

  published May 10, 2000

  Back when Napster meant kindergarten quiet time, people downloaded songs from something known as "radio" onto something called "cassette tape."... More >>

• Loco Gringo's Crusade

  published May 10, 2000

  A small part of time we share, till we hear the sound of wings I am lost in the dust of the chase my life brings -- Ray Wylie... More >>

• New Standards

  published May 3, 2000

  Sitting outside on Grand Avenue, three doors down from the apartment he shares with drummer Jim Orso, Syd Rodway looks off into something -- ... More >>

• Mary Gauthier

  published April 26, 2000

  What's most disarming about Mary Gauthier is that she isn't playing rock & roll. Her obsession with the harrowing existence of the American... More >>

• Amy Rigby

  published April 19, 2000

  The line on Amy Rigby is that she's really Liz Phair, two or three kids later. The line -- surprise -- is stupid. Sure, she likes to do it,... More >>

• Kate Campbell

  published April 12, 2000

  Coronas are hand-rolled in Havana, Cuba, flavored with bittersweet life, death and impeccable craftsmanship. "Como estas? My name is Rosa,"... More >>

• Pot of Gold

  published April 5, 2000

  Long before Amazon.com and Rolling Stone began to turn the popular sense of folk music into a 24-year-old... More >>

• Souvenirs

  published March 29, 2000

  All things being equal, this Seattle five-piece -- and their recent debut, King of Heartache (Will Records) -- might have faded into... More >>

• Eric Dolphy

  published March 15, 2000

  From the first notes, there's no mistaking it: This is Dolphy. A deep-toned, angular progression, like a crow laughing, unfurls from the lowest... More >>

• Mike Ireland and Holler

  published March 8, 2000

  Mike Ireland has made only one record, Learning How to Live (Sub Pop), but it's one of the most emotionally demanding and giving country... More >>

• Johnny Dilks and His Visitacion Valley Boys

  published March 1, 2000

  Johnny Dilks' conversion to country music is familiar as an archetype: Punk in California in the '80s, then rockabilly, then -- recalling all... More >>

• Gateway City Bluegrass Festival

  published February 23, 2000

  Winter means downtime for bluegrass, a genre that would have gone to sterile seed decades ago were it not for the network of warm weather and... More >>

• Blue Diamond

  published February 16, 2000

  Once upon a time, say, the afternoon of Sept. 16, 1946, a genre was born. In Columbia's Chicago studios, Bill Monroe led Lester Flatt, Earl... More >>

• Jim Roll

  published February 2, 2000

  It's customary in rock criticism to begin any discussion of a singer/songwriter, even a good one, with withering complaints against "confessions,"... More >>

• Bill Morrissey

  published January 26, 2000

  The figures passing through Bill Morrissey's songs have been cursed, spent, haunted, pursued and resigned to it all. They drink, a lot, not for... More >>

• COUNTRY HOME

  published January 26, 2000

  In a strip mall near the intersection of Highway 94 and Harvester Road in St. Peters, there's a bar called Horstmeier's, where, on the second... More >>