Joe Henry once called The Last Waltz “the perfect fall album.” Big Johns, the November release from rustic Chapel Hill outfit Jennyanykind, also somehow manages to sound and feel like autumn, evoking that strange combination of cool, bracing air and […]
J.D. Crowe is old enough to remember when bluegrass was the new thing. He says he knew he wanted to be a bluegrass musician the very first time he heard Earl Scruggs play the banjo on the Kentucky Barn Dance […]
Yes, men and women may come and go, revolutions wrack monarchies, wives and husbands deceive us, taxes mount, the mechanized age buffet our ringing heads, but one of these hams will renew faith in the universe. To our wry and […]
by Geoffrey Himes ** Editor’s Note: Don Williams passed away this week after a short illness. To honor his legacy, we’re re-running this article from Issue #19 of the original No Depression print magazine. It originally appeared in 1999. In most cases, […]
It’s a new-age laundromat now, the spot at 2915 Guadalupe that for most of the ’80s and ’90s was home to Antone’s, the world-famous “home of the blues” in Austin that moved downtown a couple years ago. Just a few […]
Cisco is one fair motherfucker. No, that’s not a critical assessment, that’s straight from the horse’s mouth. “I’m a fair motherfucker. That’s what I am,” he says, with no hint of sarcasm. “I’m as polite as I can be in […]
There is a singular pleasure in hearing a backup musician step to the fore — assuming the musician is a good one, of course, and wasn’t being kept back for a reason. We are suddenly paying attention to someone we’d […]
“I just wanted some kind of documentation of what I’ve done with the last seven years. And to not have anything — I mean, it’s hard to even consider yourself a legitimate part of any kind of music community or […]
Once upon a time, they say, nearly every barn on nearly every road to Chattanooga — well, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, but they’re kin — had the same slogan painted in big, Futura Bold letters on its roof: SEE ROCK CITY. […]
Names: If he’s said it once, he’s said it five times Tone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Tone. The unidentified bassist in the Flat Duo Jets picture [ND #18, Nov.-Dec. ’98]. C’mon, a little research wouldn’t hurt. It’s probably not David Menconi’s […]
