Email Author Roy Kasten

2004 Stories by Roy Kasten

• Graham Parker

  published April 28, 2004

  How long can one man remain angry? Ask Graham Parker, and he'd likely tell you just as long as life keeps pissing him off. Career... More >>

• Marah

  published April 7, 2004

  It's the unfiltered, seething sound of the city you hear in Kids in Philly, the album that remains Marah's finest hour. It's a sonic... More >>

• Tom Russell

  published March 24, 2004

  You can trace Tom Russell's skeptical fascination with the American West to his earliest recordings -- or perhaps all the way back to his... More >>

• Lucinda Williams (cancelled)

  published March 10, 2004

  Lucinda Williams built her reputation as a songwriter, but it's the dense grain of her voice -- the slur and shiver, the crackle and drawl... More >>

• Forever Young

  published March 3, 2004

  Even for an artist long obsessed with finding beauty in noise and lyricism in chaos, Greendale sets a new standard for Neil Young. Shot on... More >>

• Working-Class Hero

  published February 11, 2004

  Like a thousand rock & rollers, bluegrassers and country musicians before him, Fred Eaglesmith turned to music to escape the fate of those who... More >>

• Go Tell It in the Garden

  published February 4, 2004

  The Lofties Sisters have always and only sung gospel, but that doesn't mean their music is irrelevant to folks who remain too skeptical, or too... More >>

• George Strait

  published January 21, 2004

  The cover of George Strait's latest LP, Honkytonkville, shows the singer leaning against a lamppost before a neon-lit strip of... More >>

• Bird Songs

  published January 21, 2004

  Andrew Bird now makes his home in Elizabeth, Illinois, population 700, a village surrounded by farms and limestone hills in the northwest corner... More >>

• The Cantrells

  published January 14, 2004

  What could be simpler? Two voices, a guitar, a fiddle, sometimes a mandolin, blending on songs that belong to all of us, even if we've never heard... More >>

• Bitter Truths

  published January 7, 2004

  It's not that you won't hear a good ol' honky-tonk drinking song on country radio these days, but there's a world of difference between "Beer for... More >>