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David Allan Coe’s stained legacy
David Allan Coe’s stained legacy When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy,” wrote William Hazlitt, “it ceases to be a subject of interest.” Apply that maxim to country music legend David Allan Coe, and you’ll get a mixed bag of love and hate. At one ...
Defining the artist inside
Maybe the greatest subconscious human fear is that life is meaningless, or, as the late guru Alan Watts put it, that life is nothing...
The last dance
Dusk fell outside the Bustop Gentlemen’s Club on Broadway at the far edge of north Boulder. Skye, a Bustop regular dressed in a miniskirt...
Nicki Bluhm solo
As a touring musician, Nicki Bluhm is used to spending more than half the year on the road — staying at different hotels in...
America at a crossroads and Bob Dylan on tour
In 1975, the U.S. was at a crossroads. The Vietnam War was over, and Americans were more disillusioned than ever. Big cities out east,...
The man, the myth, the legend
Though they were incredibly gifted performers whose music still resonates and whose influences remain readily apparent today, you don’t see bumper stickers reading, “God Bless Janis Joplin.” Or Jimi Hendrix. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Dean Martin. The only such bumper ...
The ghosts of Manitou Springs
Dead leaves swept gently across the footpaths in Crystal Valley Cemetery last Saturday evening, as if brushed away by a great, unseen hand. A crescent moon slipped silently behind the hills, and several large deer munched quietly on the short grass overlying Manitou ...
The joy of ‘Constant Sorrow’
“The Soggy Bottom Boys have been steeped in old-timey material. We’re silly with it.” —Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The gig was...
The dirty 30
"I think I’m in Raleigh-Durham.”
It’s 11 a.m. in North Carolina, but Todd Park Mohr sounds a little tired over the phone. No judgment, though:...
Boulder’s sweetheart gets ‘Sweeter’
Has anyone here ever been in love?” Dafna Margalit asks a crowd.
It’s 2018, and Margalit, then a senior at Fairview High School, is about...
Whistling past a graveyard
Living with her parents in their summer home in “the middle of nowhere forest in Sweden” was not what Siri Isaksson expected to be...
Dave Mason is feelin’ … pretty good
There aren’t many artists of Dave Mason’s vintage who can escape being defined by their past, and for most them — rockers who came...
