Email Author Jonny Whiteside

1998 Stories by Jonny Whiteside

• Grin 'n' Bare It

  published November 19, 1998

  Photo by Jay BlakesburgThose Nashville cats just get weirder and weirder: John Carter Cash escorting father Johnny to a Metallica show; Waylon... More >>

• Grin 'n'Bare It

  published November 12, 1998

  Those Nashville cats just get weirder and weirder: John Carter Cash escorting father Johnny to a Metallica show; Waylon Jennings' boy Shooter is,... More >>

• The Wildest Keely Smith Returns

  published September 24, 1998

  Pop-jazz vocalist Keely Smith is a siren, a dark-eyed, clear-toned temptress whose passionate vocals and often idiosyncratic phrasing never fail... More >>

• Eastside A-Sides

  published September 17, 1998

  The way-boss East Los Angeles sound of The Midniters, the Premeirs, the Blendells, Cannibal & the Headhunters - one of the greatest-ever eruptions... More >>

• Mr. Rhythm Beats On

  published September 10, 1998

  Andre Williams is a monster, a powerhouse rhythm & blues showman so verily bad that he almost defies description. He roars, he vibrates, seems to... More >>

• Tramp on Your Street

  published August 6, 1998

  Billy Joe Shaver, widely recognized as one of country music's greatest songwriters, is continually beset by a cycle of professional and personal... More >>

• Honk if You're Hungry

  published July 23, 1998

  Los Angeles tenor saxophonist Clifford Solomon is one of the cool ones, a jazz and R&B man whose 53 years of bandstand experience follow him, like... More >>

• Wild Angel

  published July 16, 1998

  DAVIE ALLAN & THE ARROWS Fuzz Fest (Bomp) Although this album was first released (for about 15 minutes) in late 1996, the... More >>

• Back to the Country

  published June 4, 1998

  Country singer Randy Travis' tour bus - over half a million dollars' worth of steel and chrome, emblazoned with an adobe-village mural on either... More >>

• This Week Sucked

  published April 16, 1998

  VARIOUS ARTISTS Live at Raji’s 1987 (TON) Musty, dark, smoky, with an inescapable stench of stale beer, sweat and passion... More >>

• Jackie Lee Waukeen Cochran, R.I.P.

  published March 26, 1998

  Jackie Lee Waukeen Cochran, the restless, intense singer-guitarist best known for rockabilly classics "Hip Shakin' Mama" and "Ruby Pearl," was... More >>

• Mockin' Bird

  published March 5, 1998

  As half a dozen gaudy koi fish shimmy beneath a blue glass dolphin that appears to leap from the mosaic fountain dominating the front bar of... More >>