The lie about spring training is in its name. It doesn’t happen in the spring, at least not most of it. Spring training begins when pitchers and catchers report in mid-February. That’s the dead of winter for most of the […]
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In the wake of Ray Charles’ recent country music box set, as well as Lambchop’s recent soul dabbling (both on their own and with Vic Chesnutt), this reprint of Barney Hoskyns’ country soul study couldn’t have come at a better […]
Smog clears the air I am writing in regard to the issue of No Depression containing the excellent article on Golden Smog [ND #18, Nov.-Dec. ’98]. After reading some comments concerning the Jay Farrar interview in the previous issue [ND […]
Radio Revival: Bloodshot Revival, a new imprint of Bloodshot Records, has teamed with Soundies Records to issue a series of radio transcriptions originally recorded five decades ago. The inaugural release, a collection of tunes by singing cowboy Rex Allen, comes […]
“No Depression seems like a culturalist, racist magazine to me, about a certain kind of white music.” — Will Oldham Time Out New York Dec. 10-17, 1998 “Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle […]
1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 2 Lyle Lovett, Step Inside This House (Curb/MCA) 3 Bob Dylan, Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (Columbia/Legacy) 4 Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue (Elektra) 5 Beck, Mutations […]
There are two kinds of DJs: those who work their banter in around the records they play, and those who treat those records as filler for their self-aggrandizing shtick. Country radio is dominated by the latter, most of them expatriates […]
Welcome to Mutant Country, the down-home alien world of the Bubbadinos. If you look at the song titles on the Bubbadinos’ first CD, Ready As We’ll Ever Be (Zerx Records), most of the cuts are readily identifiable: “Lost Highway”, “Tennessee […]
It’s really no surprise that Bukka Allen grew up to become a musician. The eldest son of revered Texas songwriter/artist Terry Allen and multitalented playwright/songstress Jo Harvey Allen, he was raised in a very creative atmosphere. “There was always music […]
Things you should know about Tift Merritt: Her birthday is January 8, same as Elvis. She wears really cool cowboy boots. She writes headstrong songs about railroads, cowboys, rodeos, honky-tonks, cheatin’ — you know, the important stuff. And most important […]
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