Herald Nix isn’t exactly what you would call prolific. The 53-year-old singer’s first two records — a rockabilly EP called One Night Only and a neo-country EP follow-up, The Fugitive Kind — hit the streets when vinyl was still king […]
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Some things are not accidents. I had agreed to write a story on the Gourds for this magazine, and so I was in the process of gathering up some of the stuff I didn’t have, which included their previous album […]
We’re clustered around a picnic table in the Power Station, an outbuilding of what used to be the county poorhouse outside Portland, Oregon. Caleb Klauder and Sammy Lind, two Foghorn Stringband members, are here for their regular Tuesday night gig, […]
They have the instrumentation and sound of a bluegrass band. They definitely dress like one, and the four guys sure look comfortable gathered around that one microphone. But there’s an intangible at work, or maybe a specter — the ghost […]
PREFACE: Cool rockin’ Loretta That Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose was the runaway winner in our second annual No Depression critics’ poll comes as no surprise. Though Lynn didn’t receive so much as a nomination from the Country Music Association […]
1 Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti-) 2 Elliott Smith, From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-) 3 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (E-Squared/Artemis) 4 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West) 5 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM) 6 Elvis […]
All Americans: Red & blue in black & white, and gray I just skimmed through my second issue of ND since becoming a subscriber. I’m a bit perplexed as to why some people got their panties all in a wad […]
Word has it the people who last owned the Glass House at the top of Cemetery Hill used to feed the foxes. We are accustomed to seeing deer, though it is now hunting season and they’ve turned color and withdrawn, […]
An armload of new DVDs featuring adventurous Texans greet this new year, but the one many of you will have been waiting for is Old 97’s Live At The Troubadour (New West). The band’s first live video performance release ever […]
HELLO GOODBYE: Tex-Mex supergroup LOS SUPER SEVEN have re-assembled for a third album. Raul Malo, Rick Trevino, Flaco Jimenez, Joe Ely and Freddy Fender return from the earlier outings, while Delbert McClinton, John Hiatt, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Redd Volkaert […]
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