It wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate just to strike “Industry” from this book’s subtitle. That’s because Diane Pecknold’s The Selling Sound argues that “the rise of country music” and “the rise of the country music industry” are, if not identical phenomena, […]
Kenneth Francis Nelson, who died January 6 at his home in Somis, California, at 96, was an enabler in the best sense of the word. In 26 years overseeing Capitol Records’ country division, his primary goal beyond selling records was […]
The Cowboy Junkies invited such friends as Vic Chesnutt, Natalie Merchant and Ryan Adams to Toronto’s Church of the Holy Trinity to help them revisit the music of an album that was seminal for so many, and which is, holy […]
Dear Friends: Barring the intercession of unknown angels, you hold in your hands the next-to-the-last edition of No Depression we will publish. It is difficult even to type those words, so please know that we have not come lightly to […]
Critics’ & readers’ polls: On the banks of sweet Dundee After years of searching around for the latest issue, my daughters gave me a subscription to No Depression for Christmas. The new issue arrived (very promptly, well done). Upon reading […]
PONDEROSA PARADISE: Admit it — Getting worked up for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2008 isn’t quite so easy when headliners include Billy Joel and Tim McGraw. But there is still a mighty fine reason to make tracks […]
She may be mythic to some, but Anna Lee Amsden also makes a tasty fried cornbread. She is serving it to hungry music fans in Woodstock, N.Y., one late Saturday night in early September as Levon Helm, her friend of […]
In Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon’s classic road chronicle, the author “took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.” As it turns out, the band […]
“I like records. I don’t like technology. What’s your record? What are you singing about? What’s in your heart? What’s on the horizon? All of that is fascinating to me.” –Daniel Lanois “Have you heard about the iPlug?” asked Daniel […]
The Felice Brothers are not making this up. It’s all true, or most of it, anyway. The Brothers really did record parts of their new, maybe-breakthrough album — a mournful, lo-fi countryish-folk self-titled disc due out March 4 on Team […]
