Back from an exhausting few days of industry schmoozing in Austin at the South by Southwest Festival, Marah returned to the city of the Mummers for their “official” Kids in Philly CD release party. Marah seemed as if they were […]
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Mountains contained a wide, gray sky; gunshots echoed faintly from the shooting range down the road; the wind sang atonally, unwelcomely, through the microphones. But the several hundred people who camped out, and the handful more who were able to […]
Depending on your outlook, the small theatre behind John Cleere’s pub is half full or half empty for tonight’s show. However, in a venue this snug, there are no wide open spaces in the crowd to dampen the atmosphere. In […]
“Can I get a page number?!” bellowed David Rawlings with all the sweaty fervor of a Pentecostal preacher at a tent revival. “128!” barked a man from the bar. Rawlings obediently opened the Bob Dylan songbook, thumbed to that page, […]
The first Honky Tonk-A-Rama, held in February 1996, was a storm-ravaged affair, with the bad weather outside leading to some interesting lineups — John Howie and Ryan Adams sat in on drums and bass, respectively, for Jolene’s snowbound rhythm section […]
When I was in junior high, my nearly total musical passion was soul music. But for a couple of years there, between spinning 45s of the Staple Singers, O’Jays and Spinners, I would also regularly play a scratchy old LP […]
Anyone even slightly familiar with the background of Merle Haggard’s music would be unsurprised to hear that Lefty Frizzell’s indispensable recordings of Jimmie Rodgers songs such as alt.country precursor “My Rough And Rowdy Ways” were among his prized boyhood possessions. […]
I remember nights like these when we were out in L.A., back before Grant moved to Nashville — waiting until the wee hours to write the “Hello Stranger” column, downing a coupla beers to hopefully help unloose a few words, […]
Richmond Fontaine: Blackstock, you ignorant slut Peter Blackstock’s review of Richmond Fontaine’s Lost Son [ND #25, Jan.-Feb. ’00] inspired one “printable” word: NONSENSE. Perhaps there are others — garbage, crap, you get the picture. Perhaps Blackstock should spend more time […]
1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy) 2 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 3 Ani DiFranco, To The Teeth (Righteous Babe) 4 Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue (Sugar Hill) 5 Kelly Willis, What […]
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