“I call my music country music,” says Greta Lee. It’s a simple statement that could seem a tad ironic or patently obvious, depending on your point of view. For Lee, it’s more like a hard-won fact of life. Listening to […]
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Most bands, the good ones anyway, are formed between friends. The motivations to do so, especially in the case of young men, can be as simple as “It’ll be cool” and/or “It’ll make it easier to get girls.” Bands are […]
Even though it’s the middle of the afternoon, the Romweber household west of Chapel Hill is dark. The blinds are drawn, all the lights off. In fact, the only source of artificial light anywhere in the house is the television […]
Sometimes traditions were meant to be broken. The Cigar Store Indians found this out by way of a happy accident that ended up having a lot to do with what they became. Formed seven years ago by singer/guitarist Ben Friedman, […]
Punctuating with graceful gestures and winsome grins, Anna Fermin tells her story, surrounded by her band in front of a television set. They’ve gathered to hear her song “Blame Me” played to a nationwide audience in the soundtrack to The […]
For me, somehow, lonesome country songs sound best on the radio, coming out of my car speakers, late at night on an empty back road or highway. Perhaps this overly romantic notion can be attributed to the often observed explanation […]
1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 2 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue (Elektra) 3 Gillian Welch, Hell Among The Yearlings (Almo) 4 Nanci Griffith, Other Voices Too (Elektra) 5 Emmylou Harris, Spyboy (Eminent) 6 Lucinda […]
Farrar interview: Like it or lump it I recently became a subscriber to your No Depression magazine and thoroughly enjoy reading the articles presented. I am a big fan of Son Volt and was excited to read the article in […]
The last thing I heard, first thing this morning, was the sound of Mark Olson and Victoria Williams singing together, on their latest self-released Creek Dippers album, Pacific Coast Rambler. These final weekends are always a struggle, and a pleasure. […]
In the foreword to Rockabilly: A Forty-Year Journey, the late guitarist Danny Gatton says of author Billy Poore: “Nobody could write a book on it like he could, ’cause he’s got an honest, blue-collar style of writing and he calls […]
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