Every serious Roger Miller fan will want to read this book, and every one of them will be frustrated. Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is only what its subtitle says: a series of interview transcriptions done by Lyle Style who, after […]
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Country music had never seen the likes of Cindy Walker before, and doubtless never will again. One of just four non-performing songwriters in the Country Music Hall of Fame — the others being Harlan Howard and Boudleaux & Felice Bryant […]
Maybe New York and Nashville simply are doomed never to really see and hear each other without distortion, for all of the pre-set images and ideas each has of the other standing stubbornly in the way. New case in point: […]
Our history with Alejandro Escovedo goes back a fair ways, as those of you who have been with us since the early days likely remember. Grant wrote a feature story about him in our second issue back in early 1996, […]
On our jazz show on WNUR, the Northwestern University station, my co-host John Corbett and I wheel happily among styles, forms and accents: swing, bop, free, harmolodic; Dutch, German, English, Ethiopian; honkin’ saxes, laptop squiggles, transportable schlock. Never mind “April […]
Many happy referrals: One new reader at a time I learned about No Depression magazine in a rather strange sort of way. I have been a subscriber to Bluegrass Unlimited ever since it began in the 1960s. A couple of […]
1 Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador) 2 Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) 3 Rosanne Cash, Black Cadillac (Capitol) 4 Neil Young, Prairie Wind (Reprise) 5 Ryan Adams, 29 (Lost Highway) 6 K.T. Tunstall, Eye […]
HER AIM IS TRUE: To date, singer ALLISON MOORER has made art in spite of her difficult background, but her next record, Getting Somewhere, promises to draw on that troubled past. The album, due June 13 on Sugar Hill, addresses […]
One of the high points of this year’s South By Southwest festival was the second live performance by the New Orleans Social Club. Last October, a number of New Orleans’ musicians-in-exile met in Austin to record Sing Me Back Home, […]
Alejandro Escovedo no longer takes anything for granted. Always a courtly gentleman with a soft-spoken manner, he begins the interview by asking, “How are you?” Fine, Al, great. Couldn’t be better. And you? How are you feeling? “I’m doin’ very […]
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