Picture this. The heart of the Texas panhandle, late 1940s. We are driving up a dirt road. The heat is suffocating, moving in dusty waves through the car windows to settle against our mouths. But the humidity is slowly lifting, […]
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Dan Zanes and I have come full circle. In a memorable night in the summer of 1984, after seeing R.E.M. and the Dream Syndicate, I rushed off to the Cubby Bear Lounge in Chicago to catch Dan Zanes lead the […]
It’s a cheerful, sunny afternoon in a quiet residential neighborhood in Antwerp, a Belgian city known for its old, cobbled streets and its flourishing diamond trade. Antwerp isn’t the first place that comes to mind when thinking about country music. […]
When Catherine Ann Irwin — best-known as half of the creative nucleus of Freakwater — was a just a tot, she learned that her financial security for life had been provided for. Or so she thought. It was the early […]
When a disillusioned punk rocker named Wammo met Guy Forsyth and Christina Marrs at a performer’s night in Llano, Texas, in the mid-’90s, the wonder of chance meetings and beautiful accidents came gloriously into play. “We were bitching about how […]
TALL TEXANS: A new album from Billy Joe Shaver, who was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for songwriting at the first annual Americana Music Association Awards September 13 in Nashville, is due November 19 on Compadre Records. Titled Freedom […]
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 3 Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (Columbia) 4 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Capitol) 5 Dixie Chicks, Home (Open Wide/Monument/Columbia) 6 Flatlanders, […]
Pardon our French: A more worldly perspective Sorry, I’m a bit behind in my reading, but in the July-August issue [ND #40], in a review of the Houston International Festival, Brad Tyer made a remark that shocked me, saying that […]
This issue, in many ways, felt like a landmark for us. First and foremost is our cover subject, something that’s been in the works for a good while. It’s rather obvious that Johnny Cash is a natural for our magazine’s […]
So which film did you pick in the office Oscars pool? Personally, I was pulling for Copy Shop (I’m a sucker for experimental fun), but The Accountant was certainly a worthy recipient — even has a timely message. What, you […]
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