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Randy Travis (1988)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1988

The First Gentleman of New Country talks about being on the road, his North Carolina roots, the New Country boom, his youthful indiscretions, and the nature of country music.

File format: mp3; file size: 36mb, interview length: 39' 22" sound quality: ***

Wynonna Judd: A Winding Country Road

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 March 1999

Though she has hit a few bumps, Wynonna Judd just keeps driving ahead. ...

Rodney Crowell: Uncompromised 

Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 12 February 2004

Rodney Crowell creates art for the soul in the cracks of Nashville's music machine. ...

Outlaws, The: Outlaws Brought Back Live

Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, 11 May 1978

Southern Renegades Captured at Last on Vinyl ...

Judds, The: The Judds: Harmonious Relations

Interview by Robin Katz, Over 21, 21 August 1987

Country singing duo The Judds are keeping their success in the family. Mother and daughter talk to Robin Katz. ...

Charlie Daniels: Fiddlin' Dixie

Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, August 1980

Charlie Daniels, Up From Tobacco Road ...

Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer's Gospel

Interview by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 16 February 1980

Jerry Lee Lewis closes his current British tour in London at the Rainbow tonight. Mick Brown reports ...

Commander Cody: The Early Sound Of "Now" Music

Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 29 July 1973

HIS FIRST BAND was called the Fantastic Surfing Beavers and, according to Commander Cody, it was the worst band that ever existed. I was sorry ...

Firefall, Gram Parsons: Classic Rockers Firefall Drop First New Record in Two Decades

Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 30 November 2020

IT WAS, according to guitarist/singer Jock Bartley, not only one of the highlights of his musical career, but of his life. And it happened onstage ...

Byrds, The: Some of the Byrds Fly the Musical Coop

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 1968

THE BUFFALO Springfield replaced Bruce Palmer with Jim Messina. Grace Slick joined the Jefferson Airplane when Signe Anderson left. Paul Revere has had 27 Raiders. ...

Rosanne Cash: Family Ties

Interview by Simon Garfield, The Observer, 5 February 2006

PRECISELY FOUR-and-a-half hours after a film about her father, mother and stepmother was nominated for five Oscars, Rosanne Cash walks into the Nicole Farhi store ...

Alison Krauss, Cox Family, The: Alison Krauss: Music That's Timeless

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Country Music, April 1994

It's the timelessness of bluegrass that appeals to Krauss, but hers is a bluegrass that's different, one that combines elements of the past, the present ...

Danny Gatton: The Fastest Guitar in the East

Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 11 August 1991

The fastest guitar in the East. Or the West, or the South — or anywhere on the planet, really. A lot of people think Danny ...

Roger McGuinn, Byrds, The: Roger McGuinn Interview

Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, unpublished, 2 April 1999

AUTHOR'S NOTE, Oct. 11, 2014: The following is an expanded version of my Roger McGuinn interview, a shorter version of which was first published at ...

Jerry Lee Lewis: No Sinner Like An Old 'Un

Interview by Jim Sullivan, New Musical Express, 14 September 1985

Not for JERRY LEE LEWIS the cosy trail from rocker to rocking chair. Last year a rollercoaster life and career hit a new low when ...

Taylor Swift: Billboard Woman of the Year Taylor Swift on Writing Her Own Rules, Not Becoming a Cliche and the Hurdle of Going Pop

Interview by Alan Light, Billboard, 5 December 2014

TAYLOR SWIFT never doubted that her fifth album, 1989, would sell 1 million copies in its first week. But others were not so confident. ...

Shania Twain: Big Twain

Interview by John Aizlewood, Q, November 1999

She was a lumberjack and she wasn't OK. Now she's a 30 million-selling, not-country sex diva with granite eyes and Shania Twain is quite lovely ...