Cassingled Out 001 – Pickin’ & Grinnin’
A playlist by Phil Bailey that takes a wrong turn into the funny and un-PC (even for the ’60s-‘70s) pastures of classic country music
A playlist by Phil Bailey that takes a wrong turn into the funny and un-PC (even for the ’60s-‘70s) pastures of classic country music
A young ne’er-do-well meets a magical guitar that cleans him up and takes him far.
Three women find success in Nashville after fleeing abusive men.
The Kudzu Ranch. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Tin Can Trust (Shout! Factory). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Author Jimmy McDonough is no stranger to tortured artists, difficult personalities, and musicians in hopeless thrall to their muses. Tammy Wynette was long dead by the time McDonough pondered this book, but Matthew Moyer thinks the distance makes it even more special and sacred.
Crazy Heart - Original Motion Picture Sound Track (Fox Search Light / New West). Review by Al Pergande.
Dolly (Sony Legacy). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Get a glimpse of America, captured in Kagarise’s photos and stories of the big country and bluegrass heroes of the ’60s playing in obscure music parks.
Don’t you dare close the book on 2007 yet! Carl F Gauze reviews the Top 19 celebrity deaths of the year that was, and you’re not likely to see these folks in soft-focus pinups in People Magazne.
With Walk The Line behind us, and Hollywood spoof Walk Hard yet to come, Matthew Moyer takes a look at this latest biography of June Carter Cash, this one by her son.
Listening to Kasey Chambers’ debut album, The Captain, it’s not hard to believe that she grew up in the South. The kicker, though, is that her incredibly authentic country music originates from the South of Australia! Sean Slone talks with the gifted young artist about the roots of her music and life in the outback.
A former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.
This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.