Stamp collecting, by many accounts, has fallen out of favour. Indeed, my attempts recently to sell an inherited collection suggest that a lot is not worth much. But for us music geeks, value is not everything, so stamps celebrating sounds […]
The first time I ever saw Steve Earle, he was sitting alone at a Hal & Mal’s two top, turned sideways in his chair, back to the wall, just finished eating some of Hal White’s food. Over the years, Hal […]
Founder of Crawdaddy, polymath, brilliant and humble guy. I didn’t know the man, but everything I’ve heard or read about or by him was good. Some people are talented and lucky; others have the talent, but less luck. He seemed […]
Kenny Roby’s Six String Drag released two excellent albums including High Hat on Steve Earle’s E-Squared label. Ryan Adams namechecked Roby in Rolling Stone as “the best songwriter that not enough people have heard yet”. But Six String Drag broke up […]
For a lot of reasons, the biggest being on the wrong continent, this was the only show of Gretchen Peters’ European Tour I was able to make. Even this modest achievement was almost scotched due to some miscommunication by the […]
He looks like a frat boy from the ‘60s, preppy and well scrubbed, but when Luke Winslow-King picks up his guitar, Ry Cooder jumps out and starts sliding up and down the Delta. After graduating from New Orleans U, the […]
Back in the ’90s, when No Depression (the magazine) was just starting to rev its engine, a little band from Raleigh, NC, called Six String Drag earned praise from Peter Blackstock. He called the band’s debut album “too good to be […]
Song Brothers Song Eric and Leigh Gibson have opened up their hearts wide with They Called It Music (Compass Records, 2013), an exquisite album of aching songs recorded at the end of 2012, less than a year after the death of their father. The […]
Our pile of awesome new albums of Southern old-time music is growing by the day and this makes us happy! There’s nothing we like more than lots of albums of barn-burning fiddle and banjo duets, or eerie old mountain ballads. Here’s […]
The cover art of Phosphorescent’s Muchacho depicts a grittily lit scene with two topless women on a motel room bed – one on her back and the other upright and beaming, sporting a cowboy hat. Matthew Houck (aka Phosphorescent) laughs […]
