Traditional Country music’s new-guy-in-town debuted in 2009. And he’s coming to our town to show you what he’s got at the Prairie Capital Convention Center on Saturday, March 30. Is there a twang of Buck Owens in there, Mr. Easton Corbin? Whether or not, after just one album, Corbin has secured two No. 1 singles, […]
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Classic Reprint: Train songs, washboards, and snot
The following was my first published piece of writing. I submitted it to the Illinois Times in November of 1987, at age 20, and it led to my unofficial position as go-to rock music writer for the paper over the next three years. More than two decades on, it still seems almost inconceivable that the […]
