Bob Mehr
Bob Mehr has been a reporter and critic covering music for The Commercial Appeal since 2006. His byline has also appeared in numerous national and international music magazines including SPIN, MOJO in the U.K. and German Rolling Stone, and his essays are regularly featured as part of CD reissues for labels like Rhino Records.
16 articles
List of articles in the library
Arrow Brown: The Godfather of King Drive
Retrospective by Bob Mehr, Chicago Reader, 22 April 2005
Arrow Brown wanted badly to be a player-he wore a black hat, packed heat even in church, and exploited a houseful of wives and concubines ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Bohemian Rhapsody
Interview by Bob Mehr, MOJO, July 2011
Fuelled by a bitter split with lover Tom Waits, scarred by spiraling addictions and underwritten by her traumatic childhood, Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates album took ...
The Replacements: The World's Most Unsatisfied Band
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Mehr, Spin, May 2008
Nearly two decades after the Replacements' strangely quiet demise, the gloriously ramshackle catalogue of one of American underground rock's defining bands gets a proper makeover. ...
Steve Forbert: Roots artist Forbert saw commercial flashes early on
Profile and Interview by Bob Mehr, The Commercial Appeal, 19 January 2007
EVEN AT THE lowest point of his travails within the music industry, when he was stuck in legal limbo with labels and his star was ...
Interview by Bob Mehr, Harp, November 2004
Paul Westerberg on his infamous past, fatherhood and his most personal solo offering to date, Folker. ...
Guided By Voices: Metro, Chicago
Live Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, March 2005
TONGUE PLANTED only partly in cheek, Guided By Voices' leader Bob Pollard has dubbed his group's farewell tour "Mission Accomplished: The Electrifying Conclusion", and by ...
Liz Phair: Is All Phair In Rock 'N' Roll?
Interview by Bob Mehr, Harp, November 2005
THE PENINSULA HOTEL is an elegant, bordering on ostentatious, spot in the heart of Chicago's Magnificent Mile. As the concierge and desk staff scurry about ...
The Dixie Chicks: Dixie Chicks: United Centre, Chicago
Live Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, November 2006
President-baiting Texans gain new fans but lose musical momentum. ...
Kelley Stoltz: Below The Branches
Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, March 2006
Third LP and second consecutive corker from Bay Area-based cosmic troubadour. ...
The Rolling Stones: United Center, Chicago
Live Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, April 2006
SINCE THEIR ESCAPE from UK tax laws in the early '70s, the Rolling Stones have been a band with no fixed abode. ...
Robert Finley: At 63, Louisiana bluesman Robert Finley living musical dream
Profile and Interview by Bob Mehr, The Commercial Appeal, 29 September 2016
Sixty-three year old singer Robert Finley marks the release of his debut album with a show at Lafayette's Music Room on Oct. 6. ...
Laura Mvula: South by Southwest, Austin, Texas
Live Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, June 2013
Brummie nu-soul darling beats fast food hand-outs and industry hype at US debut in Lone Star state. ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty: John Fogerty
Interview by Bob Mehr, MOJO, June 2013
The prime mover behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he crafted blazing pop songs of soul and protest until band strife and label hell undid him. But ...
Jim Dickinson: "I'm Just Dead: I'm Not Gone"
Memoir by Bob Mehr, MOJO, November 2009
A Sun Records artist who played with Dylan, the Stones and Aretha and produced key albums by Big Star and Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson was ...
Ryan Adams: At Home, Kinda, With Ryan Adams
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Mehr, Buzzfeed, 7 September 2014
An alt-country wunderkind who hates country music, a restlessly prolific songwriter stifled by his label, a reformed hell-raiser determined to maintain privacy in a celebrity ...
Sleeve notes by Bob Mehr, Rhino Records, 2008
THIS STORY BEGINS like one of Warren Zevon's own songs – with a few pleading lines scribbled on a postcard sent to some far-off locale. ...
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