“HOUSEBOAT IN HEAVEN” Townes Van Zandt played the Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas, for the last time on Saturday, October 13, 1996. He died on January 1, 1997, the anniversary of the death of Hank Williams, one of his true […]
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There needs to be a pretty damn good reason for us Mainers to drag our butts out in the dead of a winter. For the past few months, the Zeftrons have provided that damned good reason. The Zeftrons play with […]
It was perfect. I awoke on Saturday morning and peeked through my curtains to find the skies gray and the city of Boston lightly being snowed upon. Some time later I stepped outside, on my way to interview Willard Grant […]
In retrospect, it seems surprising that American Express never tapped Jimmy Webb to do one of those “unknown celebrity” commercials they used to do. The catch-phrase would have practically been an encapsulated summation of his career: “You may not know […]
In the elbow-to-elbow confines of the minuscule music room at the Hotel Utah, one of San Francisco’s most promising bands headlines a Friday night show. The place is packed to see Tarnation, including many of the local music scene’s luminaries. […]
Not everyone has the luxury of recording their first album at Prince’s state-of-the-art Paisley Park studio, as Frank Randall, Dave Downey and the ever-evolving lineup known as the Sycamores did on their self-titled debut. Spending two years in a friend’s […]
Red-eyed and blue here at ND headquarters on a Sunday night/Monday morning once again, the craziness is a bit more toward the ridiculous side of insanity this time. Suffice to say that when we started this thing at 32 pages […]
An Arkansas state song by Gregory Joe Spradlin would rock you like the wind of an Ozark overlook, where tips of descending burnt-yellow sycamores open on the gleaming blue of Lake Quachita. You’d hear the whir of reapers combing grain […]
In a just world, you’d never find the milk carton empty after you’ve filled a bowl with your breakfast cereal. Your hometown team would snatch the World Series from the Yankees in the bottom of the ninth in game seven […]
One day last December, a coffee house in Nashville called Bongo Java made national news. Someone who works there turned one of their freshly made cinnamon buns sideways and discovered that it bore a remarkable similarity to Mother Theresa. Bongo […]
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