Solomon Burke: Not giving up on him I was disappointed with the tone taken by Bill Friskics-Warren in his review of Solomon Burke’s Don’t Give Up On Me CD [ND #40, July-August 2002]. It appears he likes the recording, but […]
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1 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 2 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 3 Flatlanders, Now Again (New West) 4 Patty Griffin, 1,000 Kisses (ATO) 5 Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Capitol) 6 Tom […]
“All these [records] were milestones, each one fried my brain a little further, especially the experience of the first few listenings….The whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment.” –Lester […]
Depending on how you reckon it, You Ruined Everything is either the third Two Dollar Pistols album, or the first. Ask frontman John Howie, and he’ll lean toward the latter. At the very least, You Ruined Everything is a statement: […]
Minneapolis can get depressingly cold in the winter. Touring bands stop coming through, local bands get sick of moving gear in the freezing rain, and music fans try and stay warm in their apartments, hopefully with the help of their […]
It’s hard to find history in a patch of hot dirt, weeds, and cracked asphalt. Yet just such an abandoned vision of former honky-tonk glory is exactly what you get if you come to Bakersfield in search of the Blackboard, […]
Singer-songwriter Bob Frank’s website characterizes him as “one of the most obscure songwriters on the face of the planet,” a prime example of his self-deprecating humor. After releasing his self-titled debut album on Vanguard Records in 1972, Frank toured to […]
When Doug Martsch, once and future leader of Built To Spill, idiosyncratic guitar hero and full-time resident of Idaho, recorded his debut solo album, Now You Know, in the fall of 1999, he didn’t like it very much. The album, […]
“Just because I’m blonde, don’t think I’m dumb ‘Cause this dumb blonde ain’t nobody’s fool.” Dolly Parton sang those lines on “Dumb Blonde”, her debut single for Fred Foster’s old Monument label, back in 1967. Written by the great Curly […]
Editor’s Note: Guy Clark passed away on May 17, 2016, according to his longtime friend and colleague Tamara Saviano. In his memory, we’re re-running this cover story from 2002. May he rest in peace. Guy Clark lives on a quiet […]
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