At the southern end of Toronto, where the metropolis meets Lake Ontario, there sits a small chain of islands known to locals simply as the Island. There you can find sailing clubs, public parks, a hobby farm, and on the […]
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For Mat Brooke, Grand Archives presented a second chance not afforded many musicians: To grow up. “There’s probably a natural progression of things that come with age,” he says. “When you’re younger, you’re drinking and going through a ton of […]
Is there, perhaps, a distinction between stopping and ending? Maybe stopping is the absence — intentional or otherwise — of future plans to continue with what had been an ongoing concern. Ending feels more like a deliberate act calculated to […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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