One night just after he’d quit starving in Nashville, but long before he’d settled into a comfortable house in the country with his third wife, Hank Cochran sat alone in the office of the small publishing company he worked for. […]
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Last winter, Christy McWilson found herself at a crossroads. The country-rock band she fronted for ten years, the Picketts, had ground nearly to a halt. But she was still writing, and had recorded early versions of a new batch of […]
Overwhelming Loudon Wainwright isn’t easy, but Carolyn Mark managed it recently at Seattle’s Century Ballroom. “I scared him, I think. I was pretty excited and he was in the dressing room by himself and I’m like, ‘Loudon. Hi. I’m Carolyn. […]
If Belle Starr’s sound were analogous to their horse-thieving, gun-toting, outlaw-loving namesake, you’d might expect one of those Marshall-stacked, power-chord-wielding acts that occupy the darker edges of alternative country. But, to the benefit of better hearing and twangy hooks, that’s […]
In his book In The Country Of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff maps out a cross-section of Tennessee and Kentucky, including snatches of bordering states, as country music’s most fertile ground, its deep zone of talent and tradition. The island of Cuba, […]
WHO’S WHERE: Though there has, as of yet, been no formal announcement regarding the status (or demise) of Son Volt, leader Jay Farrar is reportedly working on a solo album with New Jersey producer/engineer John Agnello, who has worked with […]
1 Jimmie Dale Gilmore, One Endless Night (Windcharger/Rounder) 2 Neil Young, Silver & Gold (Reprise) 3 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Island) 4 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy) 5 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, Furnace Room […]
Lee Ann Womack: Countrified or compromised? When I first saw the article on Lee Ann Womack [ND #27, May-June ’00], I was nonplussed. Then I saw the byline and thought, well, what can you expect from a guy who doesn’t […]
I first got to know Kim Webber through a notorious AOL message board which had a little something to do with the name we chose for this magazine. Kim was part of a small contingent from Knoxville who had stumbled […]
March 14: Tommy Collins, 69, one of the early exponents of the Bakersfield Sound. Born Leonard Raymond Sipes, Collins recorded for Capitol during the mid-’50s but gave up his career to heed a call to the ministry, only to return […]
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