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2003 Stories by Roy Kasten

• Porter Hall, Tennessee

  published May 28, 2003

  On just about every level imaginable, Porter Hall, Tennessee should not work. Molly Conley and Gary Roadarmel do indeed hail from the... More >>

• King Richard

  published May 7, 2003

  You can never find your way offstage because you never know where you are," Richard Thompson says, remembering a gig from the late '80s when he... More >>

• Hillbilly Redux

  published May 7, 2003

  Go ahead, look Dwight Yoakam in the eyes. You can't, of course, for that trademark Stetson -- wide, long and mean as a black Cadillac -- casts a... More >>

• Fred Eaglesmith

  published April 30, 2003

  Fred J. Eaglesmith's new label, AML, is a joke. "AML" stands for "A Major Label," and the joke is on a music industry so bloated, corrupt... More >>

• Wild Is the Wind

  published April 30, 2003

  We always did prefer our iconic figures injured, stuck full of arrows or crucified upside-down; we need them flayed and naked; we want to watch... More >>

• Cardboard Miracles

  published April 30, 2003

  "There's so much going on in the world that's nothing to laugh at/And he's not about to change the station this time." So ends David Clewell's... More >>

• Family Affair

  published April 9, 2003

  Big Smith is a band of cousins -- first cousins, to be precise. They sound like your grandfather's grandfather's parlor band, high on a jug of... More >>

• Spencer Bohren

  published February 12, 2003

  The ten long years known as the 1970s were, among other things, the epoch of white-boy blues. When the middle class of America rediscovered living... More >>

• Protest Songs

  published February 5, 2003

  It's interview day for Steve Earle, which means he's cooped up in his manager's office, shuttling from call to call, giving fifteen minutes here,... More >>

• Josh Ritter with Jimmie Dale Gilmore

  published January 22, 2003

  This scraggly, well-wandered Rhode Islander may seem like another underachieving slacker, scrawling his name on small-town water towers and wooing... More >>