James Blackwood, founding member of the Blackwood Brothers quartet, died February 3, 2002, at the age of 82. He performed on over 200 albums and won nine Grammy awards. He was an influence upon, and inspiration to, Elvis Presley and […]
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SECOND TIME AROUND: The DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS’ double-disc Southern Rock Opera, originally issued last fall on the band’s own label, has been picked up by Lost Highway Records and will receive a national release on July 16. The label has also […]
As would be expected from both Robbie Robertson and director Martin Scorsese, the new DVD edition of The Last Waltz has received superb audio and visual transfers. The cover boasts that this is “the finest of all rock movies.” In […]
Sometimes this 2/3-page hole begs to be filled with comments and observations on a hot subject or timely topic. Other times, nothing obvious rises to the fore that demands to be written about. See if you can guess which one […]
Losing country: And rock ‘n’ roll too? I thought Grant Alden made an important point in his Mike Ireland review [ND #39, May-June 2002] — that, mostly, real country music is no longer the music of “country people.” I’ve often […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 3 Kasey Chambers, Barricades And Brickwalls (Warner Bros.) 4 Uncle Tupelo, 89/93 Anthology (Sony Legacy) 5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite […]
Songwriter Otis Blackwell, author of several touchstones of early rock ‘n’ roll, died May 6 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 70. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Blackwell briefly pursued a singing career as a young man, but it was as […]
We met in prison. And that’s where the David Allan Coe/Merle Haggard shtick terminates, because John Shimon and Julie Lindemann are photographers, and I am a writer-for-hire, and we were sent to the Big House under the aegis of a […]
As someone taken enough with alternative country to be reading this sentence, have you been feeling just a little dissed lately? A little put down? It’s becoming commonplace to see bands and artists congratulated for “breaking free, at last, from […]
Beth Orton is the most genial kind of diffident interview subject: She dislikes the process, but entertains every question, and will readily cop to that fact that, even when the subject is herself, she doesn’t have all the answers. “I […]
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