Editor’s note: As many of you are aware, this magazine was partly inspired by a message board on America Online titled “No Depression – Alt.Country”, which began in summer 1994 as an Uncle Tupelo fan board but soon grew into […]
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Nowadays, a music critic is what we call anyone who writes about music, though actual music criticism has all but disappeared. As Greil Marcus wrote in his rock crit classic Mystery Train, “a critic’s job is not only to define […]
Sometimes the decisions about who to put on the cover of No Depression seem to be made of their own volition. When the Gram Parsons tribute album Return Of The Grievous Angel started showing up on release schedules a few […]
No direction home: The state of alt.country Forgive me, Peter Blackstock, if I say your last “Hello Stranger” column [ND #21, May-June ’99] — in which you seem to claim fans who feel betrayed by their favorite artists’ new styles […]
1 Wilco, Summerteeth (Reprise) 2 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared) 3 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 4 Kelly Willis, What I Deserve (Rykodisc) 5 Harris/Ronstadt/Parton, Trio II (Asylum) 6 Tom Petty […]
GRAM GEMS: Recordings of two songs Gram Parsons made with the International Submarine Band that had been missing in action for three decades recently were discovered at a BMG vault in Boyers, Pennsylvania, and have been released on an overseas […]
(Editor’s note: Former Jayhawks co-leader Mark Olson and his wife, singer-songwriter Victoria Williams, moved a few years ago to Joshua Tree, California, where Gram Parsons died in September 1973 (his casket was set afire there a few days later, after […]
Onstage at the Tonic Lounge, the four members of 44 Long are ripping it up, rocketing their way through another blistering set of Stratocaster-driven rock ‘n’ roll. “We have lift-off again/Just in time for the end!” hollers animated frontman and […]
The story of Buzz Zeemer is really two stories, each straight out of the standard rock ‘n’ roll manual. First, there was Flight of Mavis, a three-piece band from the Replacements school of melodic, attitudinal rock. Distinguished by Frank Brown’s […]
Nobody with any degree of hipness aspired to sing on Broadway in 1966, so when 16-year-old Cynthia Gano ruined her voice smoking cigarettes, she didn’t much feel the loss of withdrawing from those classes. Thirty years later, she finally found […]
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