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Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach Wednesday, 08 February 2006 18:00

What follows weighs the merits and demerits of the NARAS’s Field 8, Category 42, “Best Country Album”: CDs from one star of the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives, an act generally characterized as bluegrass instead of country qua country, actress Kimberly Williams’ hubby, the distaff representative of the so-called Muzik Mafia, and Mrs. Garth Brooks.

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Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach Monday, 28 February 2005 18:00

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In any event, in the days immediately following Thompson’s death, various members of the PlaybackSTL staff meditated on his legacy on our nonpublic Yahoo! Groups forum. Columnist and career gadfly Byron Kerman, for instance, touted Thompson as a singular stylist; book editor Stephen Schenkenberg, meanwhile, reported that he had just reread passages of Thompson’s work sans epiphany.

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Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:00

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Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:00

FROM THE PLAYBACK:stl ARCHIVE: Now, on the eve not only of the first anniversary of Cash’s death but also of a Sotheby’s auction of property from his and June Carter Cash’s estate—in New York this September 14 through 16, the gavel will fall on 773 lots ranging from a pair of Carter Cash’s girlhood shoes (Lot #1) to an unthinkably white tuxedo of Cash’s (Lot #611) to a pair of harmonicas the Man in Black used in Boston on his last concert tour (Lot #747)—my thoughts perforce have turned once more to a topic they’ve avoided for a year.