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2003 Stories by Lawrence Kay

• Various Artists

  published December 24, 2003

  Jim Henson, Sesame Street's visionary founder and lead puppeteer, was famous for never looking back. Bursting with creativity, Henson moved... More >>

• The Beatles

  published December 17, 2003

  The common wisdom regarding the Beatles' final record, Let It Be -- which was released in 1970 to a dispirited public and critical response... More >>

• Willie and Family/Willie Nelson & Friends

  published August 13, 2003

  As altcountry forefather Willie Nelson celebrates his 70th year of raising hell, a flood of welcome reissues and new recordings greets loyal fans,... More >>

• Hear This

  published July 23, 2003

  Possibly the most revered Brazilian musician alive, Bahian guitarist João Gilberto changed the face of modern popular music when he... More >>

• Gillian Welch

  published July 2, 2003

  It's been two years since Gillian Welch's last album, the dense, masterful Time (The Revelator), floored fans and recent converts, and... More >>

• Uncle Tupelo

  published June 4, 2003

  Three records that many see as foundational to the current altcountry boom, the once hard-to-find early albums of a Midwestern band known as Uncle... More >>

• Rosanne Cash

  published May 14, 2003

  It's been seven years since Rosanne Cash recorded her last album, the critically acclaimed 10 Song Demo, which found the former Top 10... More >>

• Lucinda Williams

  published May 7, 2003

  Altcountry singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams often requires listeners to give her work the benefit of the doubt; on her seventh album, World... More >>

• The Bard of Tomales Bay

  published March 26, 2003

  There's something about the backwoods of Marin County -- maybe it's the air or the water or all those old, green trees -- that brings out the... More >>

• Hear This

  published March 26, 2003

  Of all the Cuban music celebrities to emerge out of Wim Wenders' landmark documentary Buena Vista Social Club, vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer may... More >>

• The Be Good Tanyas

  published March 19, 2003

  Folk music, perhaps more than any other genre, walks a fine line between the impishly clever and the cloyingly precious. On the first Be Good... More >>

• Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers

  published February 26, 2003

  In 1957, the gospel music world was rent asunder with the revelation that Sam Cooke, the 26-year-old lead vocalist of the renowned Soul Stirrers,... More >>

• Hear This

  published February 12, 2003

  When avant-roots guitar picker Smokey Hormel and vocalist Miho Hatori first heard Os Afro Sambas, a spooky bossa nova classic by Brazilian... More >>

• Hear This

  published February 5, 2003

  It's anybody's guess what kind of performance Willie Nelson will give during his extended stay in the Bay Area this week. In recent years, Nelson... More >>

• Kathleen Edwards

  published January 29, 2003

  It's pretty easy to nail Kathleen Edwards as "the next Lucinda Williams," since the frequent comparison is hardly unfair. On the opening tracks of... More >>

• Survival of the Phat-est

  published January 15, 2003

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