“Not many people at the age of 25 are content to be who they are — but I’m at the point where I’m pretty happy to be myself. And that’s the difference.” — David Bromberg “I didn’t want to be […]
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On Christine Smith’s debut album, Tomorrow Blues, the first and last things you hear are some of the very first sounds the singer ever recorded: excerpts from cassette tapes she made as a child, singing for her grandmother. “My whole […]
Carlene Carter starts dancing as soon as she comes onstage. The crowd at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville surges forward when she appears, pushing at the edge of the wooden stage, and Carter meets every eye, smiling wide, snapping her […]
“I know we turned people on to country music because I hear it all the time from fans; we definitely had our impact. We also had a lot of fun and probably as much success as possible for a band […]
The first thing that grabs you about Anais Mitchell is her voice. Girlishly sprite and brimming with innocence, her singing brings to mind the hippie-throwback charm of Victoria Williams, though she says people more commonly note a resemblance to ’80s […]
Anecdote #1, as detailed by label founder Barry Poss in the liner notes of the recent box set Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective: “James McMurtry’s manager was on the line, asking if we’d be interested in working with his client….It […]
Lucinda Williams: “Continue pushing the envelope” Thank you for your insightful article on Lucinda Williams in your last issue of No Depression, with a spotlight onto Lucinda’s irrepressible songwriting journey, and its latest surging incarnation. I love all Lucinda Williams’ […]
Countless times over the almost dozen years since we began publishing this magazine, I have written or spoken as kindly as could be managed the following phrase: We try not to hold an act’s commercial success or failure against them. […]
If you’ve ever seen any of the charged, lovable Flatt & Scruggs TV shows of the mid-1950s and ’60s any time since they aired, it must have been in occasional screenings at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, […]
“You haven’t seen nothing yet Until you see me do…the JAMES BROWN!” — James Brown, “There Was A Time” James Brown was a great artist. I don’t mean only that he was a great pop artist, or that he was […]
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