Steve Azar

Steve Azar hopes his wait is over (May 2002)

Steve Azar is a proud native of blues-saturated Mississippi, and while there aren't many overt blues elements coloring his relatively straight forward country music sound, it's still hard not to miss traces of what you might call a blues attitude influencing the attitudes and actions of his song characters. Tracks on his new Mercury album, "Waitin' On Joe" (his first release since a 1996 album on River North), are loosely linked by an underlying thin current of hope, but none of these songs  ...