Leroy Bach ignored the stage and microphones to stand on the floor with his guitar, under a pasteboard cutout portrait of Abe Lincoln and Christmas lights strung among the ceiling fans. He chattered and sang to those seated at tables […]
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Besides being a major part of Giant Sand and OP8, Howe Gelb has some stories he wants to tell on his own. Like Jeff Tweedy, he requires more than one entity for his vast musical output. What takes place tonight […]
“Isn’t it kinda cool that no one has to go to work tomorrow?” asked Old 97’s singer Rhett Miller midway through his band’s blistering two-hour set, a reference to this show falling in the midst of Memorial Day weekend. “When […]
If there were more lawyers out there like William Morgan, all those lawyer jokes that inevitably make the rounds wouldn’t be necessary. Morgan, you see, is a bluegrass fan, and that makes all the difference in the world. In what […]
Such is the power of Nashville, as both a place and a metaphor, that it can be hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t the center of the country music universe. Even for those with enough history under their […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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; […]
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 […]
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