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Andrew Gilstrap
PopMatters Associate Music Editor
About Andrew Gilstrap
Andrew Gilstrap is a freelance writer living in South Carolina, where he's able to endure the few weeks each year that it's actually freezing (swearing a vow that if he ever moves, it'll be even further south). Aging into a fine curmudgeon whose idea of heaven is 40 tree-covered acres away from the world, he increasingly wishes he were part of a pair of twins, just so he could try being the kinda evil one on for size. Musically, he's always scouring records for that one moment that makes him feel like he's never heard music before, but he long ago realized he needs to keep his copies of John Prine, Crowded House, the Replacements, Kate Bush, and Tom Waits within easy reach.
Features
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
[18.Dec.07] :. If 2007 didn't invite any gripping controversies, it was certainly filled with competitive comparisons -- between young and old, past and present, and among splintered factions -- and both surprising hits and disappointing misses. All in all, a dynamic and at times resurgent year for the broad scope of Americana.
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
Film
[22.Aug.07] :. Hollywood After Dark, Killers from Space, and a conversation with Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni and The Film Crew member, Kevin Murphy, about RiffTrax and other stuff.
Recent features
Columns
Field Studies
[24.Jul.08] :. Maybe it's because current methods of listening aren't cutting it that I've started buying more vinyl. Not because it sounds better or evokes nostalgia, but because listening to vinyl is a more structured and formal experience.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[9.Jun.08] :. The Drive-By Truckers' live shows once played like a songwriters-in-the-round session with electric guitars and increasingly empty bottles of Jack Daniels. Then Jason Isbell came along -- and it only got better.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[21.Mar.08] :. Protest music can go one of three ways: angry, storytelling, or communal. Sowing the Seeds is communal, meant to shore up the spirits of people who are locked together, arm-in-arm, to fight for a common cause.
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Field Studies
[21.Jan.08] :. When it comes to his work with the E Street Band, Springsteen seems to have tempered or even jettisoned other songwriting trademarks, such as the sense of place that informed so many of his songs.
Recent columns
Field Studies
[10.Dec.07] :. If you thought Satan couldn't invent a few new rides for you, you obviously forgot that he's got all the time in the world and plenty of cheap labor -- and other thoughts on the 2007 roots music scene.
Recent columns
Reviews
Music
[25.Jul.08] :. Doucet remembers that guitars can sound mean and even nasty, to good effect.
Recent Music reviews
Music
[14.Jul.08] :. This pair of albums should perhaps be viewed as the Stray Cats' final hurrah.
Recent Music reviews
Music
[10.Jul.08] :. Hits all the right spots covering Idol's 20-plus-year career.
Recent Music reviews
Music
[8.Jul.08] :. It'd be hard to put together a better introduction to the former Jason and the Scorcher's leader's solo career.
Recent Music reviews
Featured Article
 Music
[20.Jun.08] :. Twenty years old and as powerful as ever.
Recent Music reviews
Featured Article
 Music
[6.Sep.07] :. To say this is an education -- not only into the Vee-Jay label's history, but also into the growth of American popular music -- is an understatement.
Recent Music reviews
Blog posts
Sound Affects
[22.Jul.08] :. You'd think that a single 49-minute track where the songs bleed into each other, layered over one another, with some of them nothing more than snippets (as if some invisible hand is spinning a radio...
Sound Affects
Consuming Consumables
[11.Dec.07] :. Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection launches an upcoming reissue campaign of compilations and original albums from Vee-Jay’s vast catalog (here’s hoping they reach into the...
Consuming Consumables
Consuming Consumables
[11.Dec.07] :. Throw together some top-shelf bluegrass, some cornball humor, and some cooking tips. Stir in praise of Martha White's lip-smacking plate of biscuits. Add the general store and log cabin backdrops....
Consuming Consumables
Consuming Consumables
[12.Dec.06] :. Four CDs worth of rockabilly both familiar and obscure, Rockin’ Bones doesn’t attempt to become a history lesson. It doesn’t try to answer the hotly contested question of who gave...
Consuming Consumables
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