This week on the Trail turntable: • We hadn’t heard of either one of them, but apparently it’s a big deal that Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have collaborated at long last. The former is the founding guitarist for ’80s roots-rock band, The Blasters; the latter is a West Texas country pioneer, formerly of […]
New Tracks – 10/23
He’s almost as prolific with his political and social activism as he is with recording. We’re talking about Willie Nelson, who seems to have alien-level energy and time on his hands – enough to drop two full-length albums this year (his, get this, 67th and 68th) as well as throw his tattered old guitar into […]
