A pink-cheeked bumpkin who turned into a grizzly bear, William Orville Frizell was born in 1928, on March 31. The world immediately seemed to him like a kind of lair where you can have a…
Johnny Horton: The Man who Found Alaska’s Gold
When Elvis Presley changed the face of American popular music, many country singers decided to make drastic changes in their work, playing a fresh genre called "rockabilly". Some abandoned the case after a couple of…
Rock A-Doodle: A troubadour from a poultry farm
Петух Шантеклер отвечает за восход Солнца, он разбудит и настроит на нужный лад даже пса. Роль пернатого Короля озвучил Глен Кэмпбелл, который всегда был великолепным кантри-певцом, помнившим о своих шотландских корнях
Ringo Starr – Look Up (2025): Cowboys and…
Keith Moon was an outrageous buffoon, Charlie Watts was a jazz dandy, John Bonham was the idol of the wolverines, and Ringo... Ringo was just Ringo. And it continues to be so when others have…
Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About…
They appeared in a town called Twin Peaks a quarter of a century after the mysterious disappearance of FBI agent Dale Cooper. They were previously spotted in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was there that they got…
Kassi Valazza – Knows Nothing: The Arizona Looking…
The desperate prehistoric girl Taffamai Metallumai invented the first alphabet, according to Rudyard Kipling. According to Lewis Carroll, the desperate Victorian girl Alice crawled into a rabbit hole without soap, where she gorged on mushrooms.…
The Thing Called Love (1993) Who gets Presley’s…
The film "What is called Love" (1993) by Peter Bogdanovich has a difficult fate. Due to the fact that The Thing Called Love is about country music, the film was released only in the southern…
In memory of Kris Kristofferson. Part II: To…
"Blame the Stones for everything," Kris Kristofferson sarcastically sings, opening his first album with a mocking march (Part I about Chris). He almost quotes The Rolling Stones, mentioning, among other vices of society, the bored…
In memory of Kris Kristofferson. Part I. Me…
"I went to jail that night. And I dreamed of all the wines and all the single girls of this best of all possible worlds," sings Kris Kristofferson on his debut album, intertwining Voltaire's mockery…
Columbo: Swan Song by Johnny Cash, The Man…
Prison bird Tommy Brown seduced 16-year-old backing vocalist Mary Ann 3 years ago and pretended that he was walking the path of the righteous. In fact, he has long wanted to master family money and…
Charlie Crockett – 10 For Slim (2021), ten…
Charlie Crockett. This musician deserved an article on our website last year when he released his album Welcome To Hard Times, recorded before the pandemic, but unlike Lee Rocker's post-pandemic work, Charlie's music is much…
Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird – These 13:…
Sometimes they come back. A little Corsican sets sail from Elba to bring his Old Guard to ruin. The Ouroboros, imagining himself to be a puppy, grabs his own tail with his teeth. Rotted corpses…
John Bronco (2020): A cultural phenomenon of America
How does mockumentary differ from documentary? Probably because in the first case it is somehow fiction. John Bronco is a man and a steamboat. And a reader, and a reaper, and a doodler. A national…
Tami Nielson – Chikaboom Deluxe (2021): The Booming…
"A bootleg full of surprises" is what you can call this boot-shaped island state in Oceania, although some prefer the traditional New Zealand. Maori dance brutally here, Kiwis sneak mercilessly at the worm in the…
Patsy & Loretta (2019): An ode to the…
Patsy and Loretta (2019) is a biopic about the friendship of two women, country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. The film was shot for the Lifetime TV channel by director Callie Khouri, who at…
Gunfight (1971) – for whom does the bell…
A Gunfight is a Gunfight (1971) western drama by Lamont Johnson about two aging shooters, played by Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. Both are legends dear to the Russian heart. Johnny because Cash, Kirk because…
Myla Dalbesio on country style, autumn in Wyoming
Shooting of American fashion model Maila Dalbecio for Sports Illustrated magazine, in the Swimsuit 2020 category. Due to our mentality, it is difficult for us to understand why swimwear is advertised not at sea, but…
Billy Don Burns – The Country Blues (2020):…
Bad things happen at night west of the Rio Grande. Descendants of the Aztecs are trudging across the sands of Sonora to Arizona, happy yuppies are returning from their Mexican holidays with "powdered" noses, and…
Colter Wall – Songs Of The Plains (2018):…
There are a lot of holes in the black tent of the old woman of the Night. Whose greedy little eyes are watching through these gaps for a homeless flock of wagons huddled around a…
Crazy Heart (2009) – Country Man deserves Love…
Crazy Heart or Crazy Heart, Crazy Heart (2009) is one of the best country films in the genre. This article is about American cinema, but there are also Indian and Turkish films of the same…
Dirt Daubers – Wake Up Sinners (2011), get…
This is a side project of Colonel J.D. Wilkes from Th' Legendary Shack Shakers. The completely inconspicuous cover hides a masterpiece album. The trio Dirt Daubers from Kentucky produced great material, which was also expertly…
Convoy (1978) – the best film about truckers
I think everyone has heard of films based on books or based on historical events, or, I don't know, on folk folklore. Has anyone ever seen movies based on songs? To be honest, I can't…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Stories of…
Joel and Ethan Cohen are shooting a real American epic: whether it's a movie about the "dude" Big Lebowski or about the loser songwriter Llewyn Davis. Here The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (The Ballad Of…
Charlie Ryan and His Hot Rod Lincoln: Car…
It all started in 1950. Automotive culture dominated over all others: cheap cars and equally cheap engines, coupled with a relatively simple arrangement of mechanical parts and an almost complete lack of electronics, made it…
Christina Taylor – Young country star
Kristina Taylor is a 22-year-old rising country music star from Nashville, Tennessee. Kristina grew up listening to pop, country, and R&B, and cites Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Shania Twain, Adele, Christina Aguilera, and Pink as…
Border Radio – they say musicians are the…
Border Radio is a 1987 black-and-white independent film about California musicians. The plot is that one musician Jeff Bailey from San Diego gets into trouble. Jeff goes on the run to Mexico, it's only 4…
I Saw The Light, a worthy biopic about…
Several films have been made about Hank Williams until recently, including Your Cheatin' Heart (1964) and Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980). Was a new biopic really needed? I think biopic films of…