In this second installment, Allyson McCabe sits down with Tony Mangurian, a gifted and versatile engineer, producer, composer, and musician who’s worked with everyone from Willie Nelson to U2, Luscious Jackson to Devendra Banhart.
I can’t tell you how much these guys scared Nashville. Texans didn’t know who was boss. Texas Monthly has a must-read oral history of the creation of a new type of country music in Austin in the ’70s. Musicians like Steve Earle, Jerry Jeff, and, of course, Willie Nelson describe in their own words the […]
I refused to listen to the B-side. This was, I guess, an extension or reflection of the poverty of those years after leaving my marriage and buying the 10 Willie Nelson records at a small town Goodwill store for 10 cents each– a kind of hoarding of every meager resource, like the unopened cans of […]
Happy Halloween! Don’t get arrested for going trick-or-treating dressed as Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. It may be too late to order this as a last-minute Halloween costume, but I’m sure Rumpusers could find something interesting to do with glow-in-the-dark underwear. And I agree with Adam Frucci on this–where’s the male line? Some of us guys […]