“Because of the intimacy of their relationship, mothers [of the 19th-century South] inevitably influenced the songs that were learned and remembered by their children, the style and inflection of their singing, and the moral and aesthetic sense that may have […]
About 20 minutes east of Lexington, Kentucky, the Mountain Parkway veers away from Interstate 64, narrowing down as it rises up through the hills of eastern Kentucky to Salyersville, the Magoffin County seat. From there, an even smaller road winds […]
I’ll hand it to Delbert McClinton, the man knows how to throw a party. When I saw an ad last summer in No Depression [#16, July-Aug. ’98] for Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches Cruise, and it listed a musical lineup that […]
Watching Lambchop enter the room is kinda like watching that old circus gag where dozens of clowns pile out of a Volkswagen Beetle. As if the head count were infinite, band members just kept emerging from the staircase that drops […]
Lucinda Williams achieved a certain apotheosis in 1998, riding her arduously crafted Car Wheels On A Gravel Road to dozens of ten-best lists, breakthrough record sales and two Grammy nominations. So the intimate Saturday-night guitar pull she put together at […]
Saturday night in Little Five Points, Atlanta’s increasingly gentrified in-town epicenter of hip, has evolved into some kind of a nightmare scene for anyone old enough to have lived through the neighborhood’s scabrous but considerably more affable past. This evening […]
A crowd of just over 500 braved the bracing cold to pack the lavishly restored Theatre Cedar Rapids, a two-tiered, turn-of-the-century wedding cake of a room newly available to concert performances. Unfortunately, the steep pitch of the aisles dictates a […]
“There’s a hole in the cold, cold ground/One day they’ll put me down/I hope that hole is waiting patiently.” These lines from Bruce Henderson’s “There’s A Hole” have probably held a special resonance these last few months. Henderson, whose 1997 […]
Poodie’s Bar & Grill is the kind of place they’d call a “redneck bar” out in California. Located on the eastern edge of the Hill Country, its jukebox is stocked with old-fashioned country and Southern-flavored rock; its wall decor betrays […]
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 […]
