Blog: State Magazine

Unless you count curvaceous women singing studio-altered ballads written by someone else, and aimed at prepubescent teenagers, it's fair to say that a surefire route to European musical success is something that's yet to be discovered. A good thing that is, too. But if ever there was a recipe for failure, William E Whitmore may just have it: political alternative country music from America's deep south, bred from a hardcore punk background. It's a credit to him, then, that the deep-voiced bluesman from the depths of backcountry Iowa, who still finds cities something of a challenge, has proven [...]