RIP Levon Helm

Posted by Lance Davis - April 21, 2012 - Levon Helm, The Band

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Levon Helm died on Thursday and I’m still trying to process this fact. I think I’m in denial. He was the heart (and balls) of The Band, a loose, funky timekeeper who possessed a glorious redneck howl. Helm’s genius was that his rock ‘n’ roll singing was totally rooted in country, and yet his […]

More Tupelo: This Note’s For You

Posted by Lance Davis - April 17, 2012 - Uncle Tupelo

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This is for my buddy, Lex, who bemoaned the lack of Blue Note videos in my recent video history of Uncle Tupelo. Fair enough. The Blue Note is a bar in Columbia, Missouri, the “three hour away town” of “Whiskey Bottle” fame, and according to Factory Belt, UT played there twelve times between 1988-94. […]

Amps Have Been Lowered to Half-Stack for Jim Marshall

Posted by Lance Davis - April 7, 2012 - Dinosaur Jr, J Mascis, Jim Marshall, Marshall Stack

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Jim Marshall, creator of the Marshall stack, died Thursday morning at the age of 88. Of all the men who pioneered rock music between 1964-67, including fellow innovators like Leo Fender and Les Paul, and musicians like Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix, it was Marshall who fathered LOUD.As fundamental as Gibson and Fender guitars were, […]

There Was a Time: The History of Uncle Tupelo

Posted by Lance Davis - April 1, 2012 - Brian Henneman, Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer, Max Johnston, Mike Heidorn, Uncle Tupelo

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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: One man’s lazy embedding of YouTube videos is another man’s history of Uncle Tupelo. Consider it a documentary, minus all the boring interviews, montages, and the Ken Burns move where a voice intones dramatically as a camera slowly pans across a black and […]