Gravel-throated growler Gary Floyd was quite a fixture on the San Francisco — make that American — rock scene for several years, first with his Texas-transplant punk juggernaut the Dicks, later with the idiosyncratic Sister Double Happiness. When the husky […]
“When I was in junior high, one of my teachers said to my parents, ‘I think your kid’s got the calling,’” says Johny Huber. “And I think they thought I was going to be a preacher or something. A couple […]
Dave Moore has been something of an enigma throughout his career. A singer of great warmth, resonance and passion, a songwriter of startling clarity, and a masterful musician on guitar, harmonica and button accordion, Moore, has nevertheless remained in the […]
It’s a typical follow-your-dream story. Rob Stroup was in tenth grade and Matt Brown in eighth when they started playing music together in the small town of Newberg, Oregon. Brown went off to Denton, Texas, for college, where he caught […]
One bitter night in 1997, the Backsliders played the leading edge of a snowstorm at Schubas Tavern in Chicago for ten souls with less sense than love for rock ‘n’ roll. Like the Southern sun, the stage lights echoed from […]
1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 2 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared) 3 Harris/Ronstadt/Parton, Trio II (Asylum) 4 Ani DiFranco, Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe) 5 Billy Bragg […]
“No Depression” history revises itself For years now, we’ve been explaining to folks who ask about our magazine’s name that it’s derived from: 1) a Carter Family song from the 1930s called “No Depression in Heaven” written by A.P. Carter; […]
Bonnie Palace Whoozit: Much ado about Oldham After reading Grant Alden’s March column [“Hello Stranger”, ND #20, March-April ’99], I tracked down Will Oldham’s article [Time Out New York, Dec. 10-17, 1998]. As a published scholar of African-American literature and […]
The, uh, unorthodox cover of this issue was really just a coincidence, driven primarily by the dilemma of how to present a decidedly horizontal photo within a plainly vertical template. But once Grant had stood one of the basic tenets […]
On its way to topping critics’ polls across the country, Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels On A Gravel Road was justly lauded as a showcase for the artist’s many skills: her consummate songwriting, her grainy, earthy vocals, her attention to detail. […]
