Wigginstock: This Is American Music

Posted by Lance Davis - October 28, 2010 - 13ghosts, Cary Hudson, Duquette Johnston, Ghost Shirt, Glossary, Micah Schnabel, Only Sons, Roger Bryan And The Orphans, Two Cow Garage, Wigginstock

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It’s not often I get to participate in a private anthropological field study, let alone one that’s pants-optional. However, this weekend I’m a cultural warrior battling mano-a-mano for the soul of American music. Hyperbole? Probably. Essentially true? That would be yes. Wiggins, Mississippi, is the site of Wigginstock, a two-day symposium on the future […]

Superchunk: It Is My Life, It Is My Voice

Posted by Lance Davis - October 19, 2010 - Jim Wilbur, Jon Wurster, Laura Ballance, Mac McCaughan, Superchunk

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Once upon a time, Superchunk was the little band that could. Then, they were the slightly bigger band that did. From 1991-95, they were a melodic punk turbine of flawless, in the studio, as songwriters and arrangers, and especially as a live unit. They got slightly bigger, and while their live shows were still […]

My Rifle, My Pony, and Me

Posted by Lance Davis - October 9, 2010 - Dean Martin, Hero to most, John Wayne, Ricky Nelson

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If there actually is an “americana” genre, this should play during orientation. From 1959’s Rio Bravo, this is American cinema and American music at its best. Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin harmonizing, John Wayne admiring, and Walter Brennan basically being the old prospector.

It’s a Sammy Hagar Weekend

Posted by Lance Davis - October 2, 2010 - Bob Forrest, Sammy Hagar, Thelonious Monster

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Bob Forrest, bird, Dix Denney w/coat … prob late ’80s

I originally wrote this piece in April 2009 for Star Maker Machine. However, I think it deserves a revisit, in no small part because this really is a Sammy Hagar Weekend. There’s the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, the Matador at 21: Lost Weekend in Vegas, and dozens of glorious college football […]