It’s one of those stories you wouldn’t believe unless it happened to you. It was one of the last days of the year and Susannah Weaver was closing up at the coffee shop she was working in at the time. […]
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Like the basketball junkie who gets labeled a “gym rat” — you know, the guy who’s looking for a pickup game the morning after the last game of the season — Jeff Hart is a music-bar rat. Whether he’s with […]
“Say we’re from Ballard, not Seattle.” These are the first words spoken by Goody Blick and Anne Marie Ruljancich as we sit down at the Crocodile Cafe for an interview. Ballard is a sleepy Seattle neighborhood that’s home to a […]
One evening in 1994, Dennis Scoville left home to take a summer stroll in search of a soda. He came back with a country band. “I never bought that soda,” the pedal steel player recalls. “I never got that far.” […]
Alternative country. Insurgent country. Twangcore. Y’allternative. “The great roots-rock scare,” producer Eric Ambel has been known to call these movements at various intervals over the past several years. The Cowslingers, a fearsome foursome from the rusty city of Cleveland, don’t […]
If the chat around the cooler is to be believed, we are in the throes of another sthetic shift. That is, we have already moved past post-modernism, which near as I understand mostly amounted to cleverly chewing the past into […]
Just north of Knoxville, up the road from Oak Ridge and the Bull Run Steam Plant, the wending Clinch and Tennessee rivers, past the Sinking Springs Methodist Church and the famed Norris Dam, off the Andersonville Highway, sprawls the internationally […]
FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG: The two-night TOWNES VAN ZANDT tribute held at the Cactus Cafe in Austin Jan. 22-23 and reviewed in this issue’s “Miked” section was just one of several such concerts that popped up across the […]
There I was again on my hands and knees, the young record nut squirreling through cardboard boxes full of dusty vinyl at some suburban garage sale. I’d found a little goldmine with some Dylan I didn’t have, the first Ian […]
High Noon: We must be high I read the review of the High Noon record Stranger Things (ND #6, Nov.-Dec. ’96), and found it to be decidedly uninformed. It has been the consensus of most people (outside of the industry […]
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