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Loretta Lynn

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Jack White's Solo Debut, Blunderbuss: A First Listen

    For some reason, like the Craig Finn solo album, I'm kind of dreading this. Jack White's one of my generation's greatest, which is partly the reason I'm always worried about when he'll Clapton out. Without his cro Meg-non secret weapon on drums (well, drum, singular -- as in one at a time), he came ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    Rick Santorum, 1967 Otis Redding Knows More About Education Than You Do

    ​Sunday ad-circular vest model Rick Santorum is going around the country arguing that pretty much every new feature that America has developed since 1950 is in fact a bug that Quality Assurance should have stomped out. This weekend, though, he reached back even further in time to find better days: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Rick Santorum, 1975 Loretta Lynn Has Something to Say to You

    This morning, a Wyoming gasbag who backs Rick Santorum puked up some ridiculous words on TV news for all us Internet people to laugh at. (This is what TV news is for.) Big-money Santorum super PAC donor Foster Friess told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell: Back in my days, [women] used Bayer aspirin for con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Eight Taylor Swift Lyrics as Good as Any in Country Music

    Smart people I know have argued that Taylor Swift is not a country singer. That argument demonstrates little understanding of country music or of Taylor Swift. It's rooted, I suspect, in a belief commonly held by smart people who don't care for country music: That country music should sound more l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Saturday at Noise Pop: Best Coast Is Lazy, Wavves Is Crazy at the Regency Ballroom

    Christopher VictorioBest Coast at the Regency Ballroom Saturday night.​Best CoastWavvesHunx & His PunxFebruary 26, 2011@ The Regency BallroomBetter than: Standing on Van Ness avenue in not-snow, holding a useless laminated card.We can sorta see why you'd think a Noise Pop Festival ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in the Castro

    The jukebox at the Last Call.​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Thursday's Pick: Eilen Jewell at Hotel Utah

    ​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2010

    Rock Jewell-ry

    ​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Chely Wright Is Gay! She Takes AMEX, Visa and MC!

    Had you heard of Chely Wright prior to her sudden coming out? ​The gays are excited about a new lesbian on the scene! Chely Wright - who had a big hit way back when years ago with Single White Female (a really terrible song) - has decided to reveal her filthy filthy secret: She's into women! ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Last Night: She & Him at Bimbo's

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Music

    July 30, 2008

    Dolly Parton, Free Agent

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Music

    April 16, 2008

    The Raconteurs transcend the members' other bands

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Music

    October 31, 2007

    The Man in Black on the Boob Tube: The Johnny Cash TV Show by Mark Keresman

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007

    Chromeo, Tokyo Police Club, Ryan Adams -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Monday, July 23

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    She Opened the Box

    An avid Net radio listener shares what she´d miss about the station that cracked her musical code

  • Music

    February 1, 2006

    Rabbit Season

    Jenny Lewis emerges as a solo force to be reckoned with, and brings her hardscrabble past with her

  • Calendar

    November 30, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Jenny Lewis emerges as a solo force to be reckoned with, and brings her hardscrabble past with her

  • Music

    September 14, 2005

    Hear This

    Maximo Park's Wire-y rock, the Mekons' many side projects, and the final installment of "Ace of Spades"

  • Music

    August 10, 2005

    Hear This

    Pelican exhibits why it's joined Chicago's post-rock pantheon; the Greenhornes open for the White Stripes, and maybe show them up

  • Year End

    December 15, 2004

    Americana Pie

    Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2004

    Bluegrass Alfresco

    Hello Emmylou, goodbye heart

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004
  • Calendar

    January 7, 2004

    Für Alles

    Cinema from the fatherland

  • Music

    July 30, 2003

    Amy Allison

    No Frills Friend

  • Music

    November 6, 2002

    House of Tudor

    A Case of country blues

  • Music

    July 10, 2002

    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    Honky-tonker Jill Olson infuses her solo album with a touch of sadness

  • Music

    May 15, 2002

    Hear This

    Buck Owens displays the West Coast sound that brought the rock generation into the honky-tonk fold

  • Music

    September 12, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    I went to Burning Man and all I got was this new lease on life

  • Music

    April 26, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    Tribute to Billy Wilder; No Categories; John Cage Memorial Barbecue; Bellyachers; Persephone's Bees

  • Music

    March 26, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Tribute to Billy Wilder; No Categories; John Cage Memorial Barbecue; Bellyachers; Persephone's Bees

  • Music

    July 31, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    Tribute to Billy Wilder; No Categories; John Cage Memorial Barbecue; Bellyachers; Persephone's Bees

  • Calendar

    January 31, 1996

    Night+Day

    Tribute to Billy Wilder; No Categories; John Cage Memorial Barbecue; Bellyachers; Persephone's Bees

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