Warren Zevon and Townes Van Zandt are subjects of new biographies, but they had more in common than that. Both came from families with money. Music eventually took over everything that mattered to them. Both enjoyed high esteem among fellow […]
Along with pianist Floyd Cramer and guitarist Chet Atkins, tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph helped define Nashville as the home of a no-nonsense, casual yet superhuman approach to music-making that still holds today, although in inflated form. As a session man, […]
“When will those Johnny Cash TV shows become available?” has probably been the question raised with me most often in my role as video columnist here. We have, at last, something of an answer in the new compilation The Best […]
“Back in Seattle, the sun is setting over the Sunset and Tractor Taverns on Ballard Avenue, over Puget Sound and the ferryboats motoring to the islands, over the Olympic mountains silhouetted in the western sky. It’s been an unforgettable nine […]
Mandy Moore: Not to worry, no features on Britney or Paris planned When I first started to read No Depression it was what Rolling Stone was to me in the ’60s. I realize the music business and music tastes are […]
LONG LIVE LOUVIN: Country icon Charlie Louvin celebrated his 80th birthday July 7 with a set of energetic, entertaining, funny and moving Nashville shows — at the new Louvin Brothers Museum near the Grand Ole Opry House, on the Saturday […]
“My mother used to read me absurdist plays as bedtime stories,” Carolyn Mark reveals, trudging along the sidewalks of her Victoria, B.C., neighborhood. She fires off a staccato “Ha!”, one of her many different laughs, but she isn’t kidding. Other […]
We came upon the remarkable Bruce Turner and his vintage camera at Washington Pass in the North Cascades of Washington state this summer. Others were snapping digital photos of his 1892 London-made Thornton-Pickard camera before rushing back to their cars. […]
In the spring of 2005, Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews of the Everybodyfields were at a crossroads. David Richey, the dobro player who had helped shape the band’s folk-bluegrass sound, had recently decided to jump ship. Quinn and Andrews forged […]
“We’re mentally preparing for a storm of sorts,” says Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan, referring to his upcoming performance at the Glastonbury Festival. He might as well have been talking about the release of his full-length debut, The End Of History. […]
