“God, this beer’s good,” says Bobby Bare Jr., shaking his tousle-topped head after another sip of domestic, marveling at the cold glass in his hand and the tiny, aftertaste-less, alcohol-fortified ice crystals melting instantly on his tongue. Bobby’s dad, longtime […]
As ringleader of the early-’90s cowpunk sideshow Goober & the Peas, Dan Miller sang, shucked, jived and tossed hay around the stage. One thing he did not do was play guitar. Even so, when the band that would become Blanche […]
“Screaming my lungs out with nothing to say.” So goes the key line of “Please Pardon Yourself”, a song of almost palpable yearning and hope from the Avett Brothers’ new album Mignonette. I’ll give them the first part of that […]
A visit to the downstairs “clubhouse” of Allison Moorer and her writing partner and husband Doyle “Butch” Primm seems to reflect who they are. There are bits of recording equipment and pictures and posters of the musicians they admire hung […]
Recently hitting 40 made me realize something tangentially similar to the common realization that I am never going to rock the local club like it’s never been rocked before (I realized that at 30). What crept up on me was […]
1 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop) 2 Norah Jones, Feels Like Home (Blue Note/EMI) 3 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live ’64 Concert At Philharmonic Hall (Sony Legacy) 4 Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose […]
Jeff Kerr: You’ve got mail! I read No Depression #51 while on a five-day trip to NYC. Another brilliant issue of the best music magazine in the world. In New York I was privileged to see and hear Delbert McClinton […]
The connective tissue of each issue tends to reveal itself only when the magazine is nearly done and the meaningful choices have already been made. And so we are somewhat surprised to see the extent to which blues has crept […]
There’s likely to be only one documentary, ever, that will have access to all of the available film footage of Hank Williams, plus cooperation and touching, revealing commentary from his family, surviving bandmates and associates. The film is Hank Williams: […]
CASH FOR CASH: On September 14-15, the New York auction house Sotheby’s will conduct a sale of items belonging to JOHNNY CASH and JUNE CARTER CASH. Over 650 pieces of Cash and Carter’s possessions, including guitars, lyric notebooks, gold albums […]
