Originally, this issue’s “Hello Stranger” column was going to be about Jeff Tweedy and the controversy over what No Depression is, and/or whether it should in fact be anything at all. Back around mid-November, when ND #6 was hot off […]
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From the dusty hills of Oklahoma he came — guitar in hand, bandanna on head — in 1992 to the more fertile soils of Austin, in hopes of finally finding a larger, more appreciative audience for his songs. Nearly five […]
The music scene around Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is about as balkanized as…well, the former Yugoslavia. You’ve got your punk rock kids, technique fetishists, frat-party bands, heavy metal bands, pop bands. Most all of them keep to themselves […]
Everyone knows about The Arch, but most people don’t realize St. Louis has a Walk of Fame. In U City, the neighborhood around Washington University, the sidewalks are decorated with large bronze stars naming important cultural figures who have ties […]
Editor’s note: A few months ago, I received an unsolicited and as-yet unpublished manuscript in the mail, via recommendation of a common acquaintance, from a Texas songwriter named Richard Dobson. Titled The Gulf Coast Boys, it’s a memoir of Dobson’s […]
It was a hard year in bluegrass. John Duffey, founder of the Seldom Scene, died December 10, 1996, from complications of a heart attack. He was 62. Duffey was an original member of the Country Gentlemen, who formed in 1957. […]
In those days, there were giants: honky-tonk heroes, men whose very names — Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Carl Smith — conjure images of dance halls, beer spilled on a hardwood floor, ill-fated romance in cheap motel rooms. Their […]
Jason & the Scorchers: Pioneers of the sons It was a great pleasure to see Jason & the Scorchers on your November/December cover. In my opinion, they are one of the most influential and underrated bands in modern post punk […]
“So, I just want to know who the audience is here — this is for No Dep?,” queries Rolling Hayseeds founder Kevin Karg as he and bandmate Rich Kaufmann settle in for a couple of hours of caffeine-fueled conversation. I […]
It’s 1 p.m. at Ladyman’s Cafe and Hello Strangers are sitting down to a heart-attack breakfast of eggs, sausage, toast, bacon, hotcakes — and vessels of black coffee. “It’s OK. Glenn’s trained in CPR now,” jokes fiddler and pedal steel […]
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