Jazz Articles about Lone Justice

About Lone Justice

Multiple Reviews

Lone Justice: Newfound Ways To Be Wicked

by Doug Collette
April 13, 2019

Despite the righteous advocacy of a like-minded artist by the name of Linda Ronstadt at the outset of its ultimately still-born career, Lone Justice stands as one of the most egregious victims of hype this side of Moby Grape. Charmingly guileless in the nascent stages of their evolution, the group ultimately succumbed to errant execution in the studio as misconceived as the marketing by their record label. In contrast to the homogeneous likes of the debut and the anonymous overproduction ...

Album Review

Lone Justice: This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983

Read "This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 15, 2014

After The Byrds went to Nashville and The Flying Burritos Brothers startled LA with their suits from Nudie's, but before there was alternative country as founded by Uncle Tupelo, there was cowpunk in the stylized form of the Long Ryders, but more organically as portrayed by Lone Justice. With three-quarters of its twelve tracks previously unreleased, the music within The Vaught Tapes 1983 is flush with the confidence of a group that not only knows their roots, but how close ...