At the business end of commercial country music, Australia’s not really that different from the United States. There are the same silicon trappings: big hair, white hats, insipid power ballads, soft-focus video clips. The only difference is the occasional reference […]
There’s a guy in an office on Music Row, the kind of office you can find all over Nashville — album covers and promotional posters on the walls, a conference table with enough room for artists and managers and label […]
It’s hard to believe that Chet Atkins, a name synonymous with Nashville, ever had a problem with the place, but in 1950 he did. He was in Springfield, Missouri, at the time, working on KWTO with Maybelle and the Carter […]
“Maybe I do tend to concentrate on the more miserable aspects of life in my work,” says Amy Allison, “but it’s a thrill when you have a good idea for a song, and you’re doing it, and communicating. I have […]
Adam Carroll might be peddling short stories to the New Yorker today had he not fallen into a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, namely the notion that he could get girls with a guitar. He’s not saying if it worked, but […]
1 Lucinda Williams, Essence (Lost Highway) 2 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury) 3 Whiskeytown, Pneumonia (Lost Highway) 4 Alejandro Escovedo, A Man Under The Influence (Bloodshot) 5 Nickel Creek, self-titled (Sugar Hill) 6 Bob Dylan, Essential […]
No Depression: No disappointment A little bit under a year ago, I got hold of my first-ever issue of ND, and it impressed the heck out of me. Now that some time has passed, and I’m familiar with the magazine […]
The more I write, the less I really know what happens. You get an idea for a song. Well, where does that come from? I don’t know. You just hear a phrase or a little something that just catches you; […]
WHO’S CUTER, JEFF OR JAY: Here’s the 64-dollar question: Who will release the new WILCO album? Tensions have arisen between Jeff Tweedy’s band and its label, Warner Bros. imprint Reprise, regarding the commerciality of the band’s completed album Yankee Hotel […]
On June 4, we lost an American treasure — the multi-talented musician, singer and songwriter John Hartford. Many on the periphery of the music business knew John as the composer of the mega-hit “Gentle On My Mind”, while others closer […]
