Geoffrey Himes

About

Geoffrey Himeswrites about music regularly for the Washington Post and Country Music magazine. He contributed two chapters to The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country Music and a dozen entries to The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Mr. Himes is currently at work on a stage show, Bo and Mo: A Rockabilly Musical, about two brothers in the house band at Peggy’s Pork Pie Palace in Jackson, Tennessee.
(Summer Issue, 1998)

Articles

Issue 21/22, Summer 1998

Lee Dorsey

Remove all tension, and the body will not hibernate but undulate—not sink like a stone through the rhythms of the streets, but float upon them like a cork.

By Geoffrey Himes

Issue 21/22, Summer 1998

Pops Staples

"You’re preaching the same thing we’re trying to sing about. If you don’t mind, we’d like to go on your movement with you."

By Geoffrey Himes

DEVIL GOT YOUR MAN

On Chris Smither’s debut album, you can hear the twenty-five-year-old play those guitar figures with an old man’s casual grace, backed by the great jazz bassist Richard Davis. Smither’s guitar...

By Geoffrey Himes