The Music Issue • 1995
The Music Issue: The Gospel According to Tammy; Midlife Chrysler Tunes Up; Good Citizens Up Against a Wall; The Terezin Tour; Elipse Studio; The Music Directory
Cover Story
Soul Survivor: Vermont’s heiress apparent to Big Mama Thornton is ready to testify
Once in a great while you hear a singer whose voice and presence is extraordinary. You know it at once. Eartha Kitt’s sultry insouciance. Joan Baez’s crystal purity. Janis Joplin’s edgy rawness. I’ve got another candidate for the list. She’s from Vermont, and nobody outside of Vermont has ever heard of her. So far. She’s…
Backtalk: David Archer, Walter Wood, Shelley Ismail, Phish
READY, AIM: Fire? Depends on who you talk to about the former — or suspended — manager of Memorial Auditorium. David Archer was fingerprinted, photographed and cited last Friday on grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing more than $500 from Memorial Auditorium. Details of the theft have not been disclosed because the case is still…
Inside Track: Storm Hits Mt. Ho-Ho
The scent of revolution is in the air. History will record that in October 1995, after four years of extraordinarily high approval ratings, Democratic Governor Howard Brush Dean peaked on top of Mt. Ho-Ho. With Contract with America funding cuts looming over the state like the shadow of a wolf on the chicken coop door,…
Road Worriers: Sometimes, the worst part about gigging is just getting there
In the years since Jack Kerouac first published his all-purpose beatnik manifesto, the idea of life on the road has been romanticized. Images of long rides across open country merge drunkenly with the bittersweet taste of cheap red wine and the far-off ramblings of recited verse and acoustic guitars. Ah, to be young and free…
Fast Tracks on a Slow Lane: Studio man Joe Egan likes the rock ‘n’ rural mix
On an off day at Joe Egan’s, you don’t hear a lot except the wind blowing through acres of woods behind the house, an occasional car rattling down the gravel road out front, and maybe a distant moo from his in-laws’ farm. Outside, remnants of orange cling to the trees and partially obscure — but…
When I’m Forty-Four: A new band of middle-aged rockers discover Neil Young was wrong — it’s not better to burn out
If Midlife Chrysler isn’t careful, somebody’s gonna get hurt. Burlington’s over-the-hill rock band is playing to a capacity crowd at Nectar’s, and the dance floor is packed with fans. White collars and blues are out there throwing caution to the wind — and quite possibly, their backs out of alignment. “Never heard of them?” a…
Music by the Month: Good Citizen’s hang-up — the Burlington music scene
You wander into the bookstore, looking for a swell new 1996 Vermont calendar. Your options range from pictures of orangey-yellow foliage set against a Technicolor blue sky to skiers on sparkling white slopes to…a kind of pained-looking young man, face scrunched up, veins bulging, and mouth formed into a perfect, sweaty “o” so close to…
