“We’re gonna do some songs about drinkin’ and smokin’ and bein’ up all night and livin’ free,” proclaimed 27-year-old Shelton Hank Williams III as he took the stage, three shots of appeared to be Jaegermaister perched atop a speaker in […]
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In years to come, anyone who stumbles into Talpa Cemetery in West Texas may see a small memorial stone engraved with the titles of four songs that, in their oblique way, tell Roxy Gordon’s story. The songs are Hank Williams’ […]
Almost from the day we began publishing this magazine I have patiently had to explain that, no, No Depression was not an Americana publication. Americana is principally known as a radio format, a chart in the Gavin trade magazine, and […]
Death of country music: Or perhaps its executives? The music business by definition is a mess. It is broken and when evaluated as a whole cannot be made right. It is not news that any business linked to any art […]
1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy) 2 Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill) 3 Ani DiFranco, To The Teeth (Righteous Babe) 4 Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne (Island) 5 Dixie Chicks, Fly (Monument) 6 […]
When Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey talk about releasing records from the ’90s, they mean the 1890s. The two co-owners of Archeophone, a Bloomington, Indiana, label, are spending their savings reissuing records originally released on cylinders, as well as early […]
In the summer of 1973, Doug Sahm had settled into a rambling, leased wooden house on a tree-shaded hillside above the Soap Creek Saloon out on Bee Caves Road, in what was then rural Austin, Texas. His furnishings were simple: […]
The perfectly good idea behind this book is to let the fans speak for themselves. (The idea behind this review is to let a fan review them.) Previous Dylan books have tended to the biographical, the analytical or the severely […]
Exactly one month prior to the April 18 release of his debut album on Mercury Nashville, Eric Heatherly is pumped. That disc, Swimming In Champagne, is the culmination of nearly a decade of gigging in Nashville and throughout North America. […]
State law in Pennsylvania requires beer tap lines to be cleaned every week, which is no doubt why a freshly poured Yuengling tastes so good. Four days a week, Darren Schlappich gets up at 5 a.m. to clean the beer […]
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