In this era of celebrity, Dolly Parton could be one if she never sang a note. A sign in her Dollywood museum exhorts, “You’re only as big as your biggest dream,” and Parton has always dreamed of being somewhat larger […]
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Nevermind that critics and the man himself express doubts as to his vocal abilities. A stunning and literary songsmith, invoking of the listener to “fill your heart with words I know,” with quiet yet swift surety Dave Schramm shepherds us […]
In the land where Lake Wobegon meets the Mall of America, Accident Clearinghouse seems perfectly indigenous. Hailing from a prefab suburb north of the Twin Cities, the group is comprised of six twentysomethings fronted by Quillan Roe, an art-school grad […]
Gerald Duncan and his band the Accelerators have been AWOL for a healthy chunk of the ’90s. “I needed to survive, and continuing that [the music] was not conducive to survival,” is how the 46-year-old Duncan explains it via a […]
Dear Susan & Mimi: That second week of school, while you two were busy trying to foster dreams of literature in the heads of seventh and eighth graders, you’ll remember that your husbands were gone. This, then, is a reconstruction […]
Knoxville, Tennessee, band the V-Roys, which has released two albums on E-Squared Records in the mid-late ’90s, is calling it quits, drummer Jeff Bills recently confirmed in a post to an internet mailing list. As a parting shot, the group […]
1 Various Artists, Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Almo) 2 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb) 3 Alison Krauss, Forget About It (Rounder) 4 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph) 5 Los Lobos, This Time (Hollywood) […]
Ugliest band in rock ‘n’ roll: Defending the Bottle Rockets I have never felt compelled to respond to a music review, but Grant Alden’s spin on the Bottle Rockets’ latest effort [ND #23, Sept.-Oct. ’99] left me very confused. I […]
The inherent lag time involved in magazine deadlines is an ever-present little annoyance, often making moot any concerns about timeliness and frequently requiring rush-jobs on advance deliveries of new releases. Our answer, in part, is to present pieces that are […]
Most people who know of Harry Smith know him as the mastermind behind Folkways’ Anthology Of American Folk Music, the sprawling 1952 compilation that tapped the primitive side of pop music’s Depression-era zeitgeist and inspired such latter-day troubadours as Bob […]
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