Results for Alan Jackson

  • Sunset Boulevard: The Metal Years

    by Eric WeisbardMay 14, 2008Comments (3)

    Use Your Illusion, then, arguably marked the end of rock in the weird shape it had taken when the sixties ended: Mass culture masquerading as oppositional culture (read more)

  • Pedal Steel Power From Country Pickers

    by Lenny KayeMarch 19, 2008Comments (2)

    Probably no other instrument in the world is as closely associated with country music as the pedal steel guitar. Yet its roots are found not in some rural hamlet in the Southern reaches of America, but in an exotic, hybrid Polynesian culture located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. (read more)

  • False Idols: Star Search vs. American Idol

    by Bob HillFebruary 20, 2008Comments (9)

    How did we get here? I mean, how did we get to a point where a glorified karaoke contest captivates the American public to the tune of 30 million viewers a week? Where we crown the new king or queen of pop without ever hearing them perform a song they wrote themselves? What ever happened to the days when silencing a sub-par singer was as simple as banging a gong? (read more)