Charlie Parker is the eternal now that dries metaphysics into dust. Careening between elation and nothing-at-all, a virile intoxication, a force of nature with gold streaming through his veins. Going out West and just staying, spending his airfare home on […]
Semi-Twang/Wages of Sin/Released March 2011 By Julie Wenger Watson Once in a while, without even looking for it, really great music just falls in your lap. Through a serendipitous chain of events, this recently happened to me. A copy of […]
Want More JC Brooks and the Uptown SoundBloodshot By Grant Britt Chicago’s got soul. Mavis Staples, Sam Cooke, and Curtis Mayfield shoveled tons of the stuff out of the city and into the mainstream in the ’70s. Chicago-based JC Brooks […]
You can see them, like Gollum in Lord of the Rings: rubbing their hands together, slobbering and muttering, enraptured by what they behold. After all, Taylor Swift is pop music’s golden girl; the Civil Wars are the reigning Americana integrity […]
Seattle alt-country star Jesse Sykes recently wrote an interesting article in City Arts Magazine on our musical culture of consumption. Her take was that there’s simply too much music being turned out these days for us to adequately absorb great […]
Interview: Author And Music Historian Bill C. Malone Discusses “Music From The True Vine: Mike Seeger’s Life and Musical Journey” Bill C. Malone is an American music historian, author, teacher, radio host, guitarist, and celebrant of traditional American country music. […]
“i like the way my sentences flow before you wrangled them.” This is the most memorable sentence Howe Gelb wrote to me during the process of interviewing him via e-mail in September 2011. And no, the lower case “i” in […]
The last few days, I’ve been in the process of doing something for the folks who I depend on to make my life a little better each day. You know the drill, I’m sure. As Christmas approaches, you give gifts or tips to […]
I first met John Lilly soon after he became the editor of “Goldenseal,” the magazine of West Virginia traditional life. But our first substantive conversation did not occur until I discovered that we both have a love of Hank Williams. […]
Below you’ll find the final tally of our 2011 community poll, where we asked you – the No Depression community – to vote for your ten favorite albums of 2011. More than 500 albums received votes this year, across about […]
