On August 27th Chicago-based label Drag City announced a new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues , by uploading a staged interview with Will Oldham, the cryptic force and songwriter behind the “Prince” Billy moniker, dubbed […]
Category: The AD Interview
Catching Up With Steve Gunn :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
With 2013’s Time Off , guitarist Steve Gunn took a leap that often proves disastrous for guitar soli performers: he started singing. His albums had featured vocals before, but Time Off was […]
Lucinda Williams :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This week marks the release of Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, the 11th studio album from Lucinda Williams. It’s a first in many ways – her first double […]
Christopher Denny :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Christopher Denny’s If The Roses Don’t Kill Us is the kind of record that sounds as if it’s always existed: a sturdy, twangy blend of southern soul, country, and folk . Denny’s voice — a reedy, high and lonesome […]
Castanets :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It’s been 10 years since Raymond Raposa’s Castanets released Cathedral, a powerful work of skeletal folk and dread. Since then the songwriter has been consistent — releasing a string of Castanets […]
Skygreen Leopards :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It’s been half a decade since we were treated to an LP from San Francisco’s Skygreen Leopards . Having taken some time earlier this year to collaborate with Ben Chasney (Six Organs […]
Mike Cooper :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The Rock*A*Teens :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“In that they were ‘arguably’ the best American rock ’n roll band of the ’90s, it is safe to say that the Rock*A*Teens were also the most underrated American rock […]
Peter Walker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Guitarist Peter Walker spent decades off the grid, but reemerged in 2006, when he contributed recordings — alongside James Blackshaw, Jack Rose, Thurston Moore, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and others — to […]
Catching Up With Drive-By Truckers :: The AD Interview (Hood/Cooley)
There are certain musical landmarks often brought up in conjunction with Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, R.E.M. But on […]
Doug Paisley :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This past January, Doug Paisley released his third full-length, Strong Feelings , via No Quarter Records. Regular collaborator Garth Hudson returns on the piano, along with Emmett Kelly, Robbie Grunwald and Mary […]
Catching Up With Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner :: The AD Interview
It’s been five and a half years since we last spoke with Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner – around the release of 2008’s OH (Ohio) – and it’s been a productive set of years. The group played […]
Hiss Golden Messenger :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“I had a little bit of a crisis,” songwriter M.C. Taylor jokes. Arriving in Asheville, North Carolina, where Taylor performed earlier this month with members of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia […]
Beachwood Sparks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
As El Nino rolled into Southern California in the summer of 1997 it pushed two friends, Brent Rademaker and Chris Gunst, to escape Los Angeles. Frequent trips to Joshua Tree […]
Who Is Don Muro? :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In early 2013, Jared Cheek and Jason Nickey came across a weird little record while working at the Bloomington, Indiana record shop, Landlocked Music . Titled It’s Time , the 1977 LP featured a […]