Neil Young’s annual acoustic Bridge School Benefit is always a wonderful array of Young’s musical friends and colleagues. This year’s concert, the ninth, boasted a lineup as impressive as any previous year, with Bruce Springsteen, The Pretenders, Emmylou Harris with […]
It was Friday the 13th — what better time to hear Tom Russell’s tales of hard-luck drifters, hard-bitten souls and hard-drinking romantics? Russell and guitar-whiz accompanist Andrew Hardin performed two acoustic sets at Kansas City roots-rock haven The Grand Emporium […]
About 50 folks (including The Blazers, who played the next night) made it out as the Dead Reckoning collective of Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane, Tammy Rogers, Mike Henderson and Harry Stinson hit the stage for an updated version of the […]
The six musicians in the Continental Drifters all have impressive credentials, yet it is former dBs member Peter Holsapple who really shines, as he drives the band through a combination of solid originals such as “Darling” and well chosen covers […]
Theyd been there for years, those gaudy silver spray-paint stars splashed across the northern and western walls of First Avenue/7th Street Entry, the legendary double-venue situated in the center of Minneapolis and at the heart of the Twin Cities music […]
Blackface comedy: Not a laughing matter Dear No Depression Editors: I want to preface this letter by saying that I really like your magazine. I’ve read all four issues and have sent off a subscription as a show of faith […]
“GRAM FEST ’96”, to be held in Joshua Tree, California, has been scheduled for October 26, roughly coinciding with what would have been GRAM PARSONS’ 50th birthday on November 5. The event is being organized by the Joshua Tree Inn, […]
Don’t worry if you won’t be able to catch the $2 Pistols anytime soon. According to songwriter and guitarist John Howie, they plan on hanging around for a while. “With this kind of music, we can have this band until […]
In the last few years, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel has produced a number of alternative country’s brighter hopes. Whether his work epitomizes that sound, or whether it’s just good old rock ‘n’ roll, is difficult to say. The Bottle Rockets, Go […]
Judging from the acts she has shared a stage with, you’d think Amy Rigby might have come straight out of the Nashville songwriter scene. She has opened for Bill Monroe, Dwight Yoakam and James McMurtry, and has been a guest […]
