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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Three-year-old Gabriel Scott is lying on his back in a guitar case, floating on a placid, moss-colored pond and gazing at the sky. That image adorns the cover of his father’s new CD, Family Tree. The idea, says the senior […]
Genghis Cantina tends to be a bit of a singer-songwriter ghetto. Wander into this small West Hollywood performance space any night of the week and chances are you’ll happen across a solo acoustic guy or gal emoting in all the […]
Back in 1848, Amador County was the place to be; something to do with a coveted metallic element called gold. Word got out, of course, and 80,000 folk bum-rushed this sleepy patch of land nestled in the western foothills of […]
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