Month: May 2010

“It’s a truism that the best covers must shed some new light on their originals, a mission at which most fail miserably. Not so here, where Alabama bluegrass band Iron Horse’s irony-free (and drum-free) versions of “Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters” and “Enter Sandman” lay bare the sturdy songcraft lurking, often unheard, beneath Metallica’s amped-up sturm…

BAND TO WATCH COLUMN FEBRUARY, 2005 IRON HORSE: MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA BY DAVE HIGGS “Heavy metal and bluegrass go together like angry steelworkers and precious little cucumber finger sandwiches with the crusts cut off,” Westword wryly observed in reviewing Iron Horse’s ambitious high lonesome tribute to Metallica, Fade to Bluegrass. “This is Metallica we’re talking…