The gospel according to Big Sandy

Twenty years this year since Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys—originally the Fly-Rite trio—first took off and they’ve always respected the strictest rock & roll rules. Every release they’ve ever done has been available on vinyl, and so complete at one point were their period kits that a little boy [...]

When Supersuckers get their wings

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
There are those with loaded guns and those who dig, as the wandering stranger likes to say, and in their many years as America’s most notable Motorhoids, the Supersuckers have done a little of both—years in the hole but years in control, too, extricating their band from industry [...]

The happy Wanda Jackson country gospel rockabilly show

Writer Nick Tosches called Oklahoma’s star daughter Wanda Jackson “the greatest menstruating rock & roll singer whom the world has ever known,” and although the National Endowment for the Arts may not have had that specific phrase in mind, they so agreed with the general sentiment that they [...]

Great crowd. Rocking band. Awesome lighting. Quick, easy bar service. Comfortable space. Clean, spacious restrooms … equipped with a lock, even–you know, for the pee-shy.
Looks like The Cellar, Vince Jordan’s new club–virtually next-door to the Blue Cafe, where he booked all the entertainment for years–could be well on its way to attaining cult status in [...]

Swiss Precise and friends tip with complete correct info on the free (not $5!) Special Teamz show at Blue Cafe later today:

Special Teamz gotta have it

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Many millions of mixtapes before the present, Edo G had to have it: “When you’re in like food in your stomach, they wanna stick with you,” he said, “But when you’re out like Elvis, they wanna dick you.” Boston was (and is) an aspiring satellite city for hip-hop, [...]

Ex-Blue Cafe entertainment booker Vince Jordan, Texas nightclub kin Joe Irwin and former  King’s Fish House manager Paul St. Bernard serve their version of an open-faced club sandwich

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
Humans need tangibles, and so it’s tough to write about a subterranean blues club downtown that’s yet to open, as well as its adjoining Southern [...]

Little bites and clips for what’s up tonight, like that Get Out thing I once did during darker times, but smaller. As said: all these shows cost money and probably start about showtimeish (9-10 PM?) and all these shows TONIGHT!

DON CABALLERO @ ALEX’S: Steel City loudness from Damon Che’s metalworkers (now on Relapse) plus locals [...]

From cowboys to girls with the Hacienda Brothers

Hacienda Brothers’ singer/guitarist/accordionist Chris Gaffney lived up on Wardlow when he was a kid, and when he was a bored kid he’d get away from Wardlow whichever way he could—catching beachcombers drinking hobo wine on Tin Can Beach, weekend trips with dad to see Wynn Stuart at Tumbleweeds’ [...]