I will separate and sail on a sea that’s all my own, but I promise I will write when I am able. The words came so easy, and sing still: “Jeremiah was a bullfrog/Was a good friend of mine.” I […]
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“Hayseed is, in my mind, on the same level as Bob Dylan and Neil Young and Van Morrison,” says Lucinda Williams. “That’s just what I think, that’s my opinion, for what it’s worth. I don’t say that about everybody who […]
Ed Burleson still swings a hammer and digs ditches to make a living by day. By night, the soft-spoken, teddy-bear-faced, sixth-generation Texan makes pure, traditional country music. And he’s going to keep doing it his way. “Money isn’t important enough […]
“Now a song written by the great Freddy Fender — Freddy, this is for you, wherever you are,” said Doug Sahm, introducing not only “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights” but the almost mythic expanse of Texas music to rock fans […]
One might not be too surprised to learn that Danny Barnes of the Bad Livers has given guitar lessons to someone who once gave lessons to Lucinda Williams’ ace guitarist Kenny Vaughan — but few would fathom that the “someone” […]
The scheduling is the hardest part, really. Take five guys with various domestic situations and pressing musical commitments in popular local, regional and national bands, and you’re bound to run short of time for a side project. But just having […]
There is something in the air in Austin, Texas, something that makes the city recklessly attractive. It is common, for instance, to hear first-time visitors talk about the possibility of moving there after only a few hours in town. No […]
1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy) 2 Ronstadt/Harris, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum) 3 Various Artists, Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Almo) 4 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb) 5 Leftover […]
Chicks catalog: Early albums overlooked In your review of the Dixie Chicks’ Fly [ND #23, Sept.-Oct. ’99}, Peter Blackstock makes the appalling error (in the first sentence!) of stating that this is the Dixie Chicks’ second album. The Chicks have […]
We have grown older in the four-plus years since No Depression began, and I do not mean to speak of my creaking knees, nor of my graying temples. No, those artists whose stories provide the core to each issue of […]
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