Reading this updated edition of Joe Klein’s assiduously researched, elegantly written bio, I can’t help but think there’s one flaw: He got the title wrong. First released in 1980 and now updated to include last year’s Billy Bragg/Wilco collaboration Mermaid […]
“Bean Blossom ain’t gone, is it?” Jimmy Martin bellowed from the stage. “It’s just now gettin’ started real good!” Five miles north of Nashville, Indiana, sequestered in the mild, lush hills near the Hoosier National Forest, the Bill Monroe Memorial […]
It’s too easy to say it was Texas-hot on a day when New York City hosted a mini-Flatlanders reunion. Still, it was pretty damn hot — enough that you could watch an older gentleman in a kid-sized cowboy hat attempting […]
The evening began with Chicagoans witnessing one of the city’s most beautiful sunsets in memory; everywhere in the club, people were talking about it. The clouds were brilliant with purple, orange and pink, and shifting edges of gleaming sunlight. The […]
Yeah, it’s a little weird seeing Scott Miller perform in his civilian clothes — that is, in jeans and a work shirt, rather than the navy blue suit he generally dons with his band, the V-Roys. But long before co-founding […]
“Bound For Glory”, North America’s longest-running live folk radio concert, has hosted hundreds of performers in its 32-year history. It’s unlikely, however, that many of them have matched the intensity of David Olney, the Nashville-based songwriter who was making his […]
Next to the new Star Wars movie coming to town, the return of Mark Mulcahy was going to be pretty small cheese. Still, considering how little is known of his former band Miracle Legion on this side of the Atlantic, […]
Josh Rouse’s recent performances with a full band, such as his showcase at this year’s South By Southwest music conference, have been about as engaging as a Senate subcommittee hearing on retail sales tax adjustments, beset by underdeveloped melodies, lightweight […]
One of the great joys provided by this here magazine is being able to routinely “discover” killer regional musicians who, for any number of reasons, have managed to avoid wider exposure. Surely one such “buried treasure” is Joe Price A […]
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 […]
