While Ellis Hooks is completely open about his admiration for Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, the 30-year-old is in many ways a first-generation soul singer. His story is as amazing as his voice, both of them so strikingly good that […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: James Talley’s essay last issue, on the state of the music industry, was written from the perspective of a longtime independent artist. What appeared in ND #50 was a much-condensed version of a longer piece Talley had written […]
This past February, millions of people heard Kristin Mooney sing. However, they didn’t actually see her, let alone hear one of her own songs. Mooney was just doing a day-job session gig for the TV show “Judging Amy”, on which […]
Laurie Lewis is weeding the back yard of the Berkeley home she has owned for 30 years. A crop of yellow-flowered oxalis is threatening to choke out the bright orange calendula and the calla lillies. Lewis has been on tour […]
Loretta Lynn knows exactly why she decided to go ahead and make Van Lear Rose — an album different enough in sound from what many would expect, given the hundred or so records she’s made before, that people will certainly […]
When punk hit England in the mid-1970s, its caterwaul carried more than enough volume for its echoes to reach the small northern town of Washington, where Martin Stephenson was inspired to pick up a guitar and give it a go. […]
If there’s a single principle that has guided Michael Fracasso throughout his career, it’s the notion of being true to yourself. Perhaps because he was slow to embrace the concept early on, the 52-year-old singer-songwriter today describes that imperative as […]
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