The next day the world would change forever, but on this Monday night, San Franciscan Jim Campilongo’s brand of Jimmy Bryant meets Thelonious Monk music had its New York debut in the subterranean Old Office room of Manhattan’s Knitting Factory. […]
The show began not with a moment of silence but with a single loud thrashing guitar chord, followed by a blast of Dan Baird’s vocals (“I got a hankerin’”) and a wild rush of pure rock ‘n’ roll music that […]
Sales of guitars in the U.S. topped 600,000 in 1963, nearly double the year before. More than two hundred folk albums were released that year, Joan Baez In Concert was a Top Ten seller, and the surprise hit single of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
