r/VintageObscura is a subreddit for crate diggers. Since Halloween 2014, u/kaptain_carbon has celebrated shocktober by compiling spooky obscurities and campy exotica submitted by fellow redditors into virtual HellPs, most of which are handily located i…
‘We’re like Mork and Mindy!’ Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, music’s odd couple
Fourteen years after their Grammy-winning debut, the roots duo have reunited – facing high expectations. They explain how they left their comfort zones with a ‘nuts but tasteful’ all-star bandMore than half a century since arriving to play his first sh…
“disgrace and pride, forgetting and remembering, change and stasis”
Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers: “The book is partly a band biography of the Drive-By Truckers, partly a travelogue through the South they depict in their songs, and partly an examination of the cultural and p…
‘I knew I was pushing buttons’: Kacey Musgraves on breaking country music taboos
She’s already broken out of Nashville to become an unconventional pop superstar. Now she’s stretching the limits of country again – with the help of psychedelics and a four-poster bed in her studioIt is mid-morning in Nashville and Kacey Musgraves is p…
Kacey Musgraves: Star-Crossed review – a tragedy of wifely strife
(Interscope/Polydor/MCA Nashville)The bliss of Musgraves’ Grammy-winning Golden Hour sours on this follow-up, with a breakup narrative that is a little too tidyEverything about the run-up to Star-Crossed, Kacey Musgraves’ fifth album, suggested high dr…
Emmylou Harris’s teenage obsessions: ‘The Beatles parted the clouds after JFK’s assassination’
The country singer, 74, recalls the inspirational power of Joan Baez and American folk – and the lessons dogs can teach usJust after I started high school, there was the Cuban missile crisis, so I wasn’t sure if the world was going to be around much lo…