PUBLISHED IN THE TORONTO STAR ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1998 New Lavish CD set celebrates country music star Williams By Nick Krewen Special To The Star September 29, 1998 If he were still alive, country maverick Hank Williams would have been 75 on September 17. And you didn’t bake a cake to mark the birthday of the man who gave us such timeless classics as “Honky Tonkin’,”…
PUBLISHED IN COUNTRY WEEKLY SEPTEMBER 13, 1998 By Nick Krewen Seventy-five years after his death, the legend of Hank Williams still looms larger than life. The Alabama native was not only country music’s most influential star, but its most colorful, packing a lot of living, loving, laughter and anguish in his brief 29 year lifespan. Although Hank Williams left behind an ageless country music catalogue logjammed with immortal…
PUBLISHED IN THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR AUGUST 25, 1998 NICK KREWEN Hamilton Spectator August 25, 1998 TORONTO: Seems American rock critics can’t quite get it right when it comes to defining and describing Cracker, the sardonic Richmond, Virginia-based rock group led by singers and songwriters David Lowery and Johnny Hickman. So the band made it easy for them on their new album Gentleman’s Blues. “I had to…
AS PUBLISHED IN KNIX MAGAZINE, PHOENIX, ARIZONA, MARCH 1998 By Nick Krewen The lights dim. The crowd erupts in screams and whistles. And from somewhere within the bowels of a small, sweltering hockey arena in Northern Ontario, concealed by the twilight of promise, hope and anticipation, a sweetly familiar voice asks a big sultry question: “Are you ready for me, Sudbury?” The crowd is confused at first, as…
A version of this appeared in The Toronto Star on Monday, February 15 Robbie Fulks: South Mouth’s Gonna Do It Again By Nick Krewen At first glance, the pairing of Robbie Fulks and Ben Folds Five for Wednesday’s sold-out show at The Phoenix might seem odd. But it’s a mismatch made in heaven. On one hand you’ve got Folds, the piano-pounding wonder geek whose incisive, sonorous…
