Think of Jeff Tweedy. Now think of how the edge of the earth might look: a vast ocean of grass and sky, maybe some ragged mountains in the distance. Now think of Jeff Tweedy playing a solo show there. That’s […]
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The Old Town’s pairing of Butch Hancock and Tommy Ramone — the latter redefining himself in the duo Uncle Monk as an Appalachian-style singer and mandolinist — had more wrinkles going for it than the respective artists do at this […]
Chicagoan Robbie Fulks is known for his live shows — a combination of comedy, country covers and inspired hillbilly originals. He and his band barrel through taverns like an out-of-control Freightliner. If his usual live gig gets over the top, […]
“We’re not really a duo,” Kelly Willis reminded the audience. “We just play one on TV.” Out here in places that aren’t Austin, it’s been a long time since there’s been any chance to catch Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison […]
“I don’t think that many people knew me as Elana Fremerman to begin with. James is so much easier to remember,” says the former fiddler and vocalist for Hot Club Of Cowtown. “It’s from my middle name [Jamie]. It’s easier […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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