Issue #39 May-June 2002

Features
Howe Gelb – It’s that sonic evolution
Josh Graves – Sliding in first time (the Resonator)
Patty Griffin – The big kiss-off
Robin & Linda Williams – Keeping the home fires burning
The Flatlanders – One road more
Tift Merritt – A good country mile
Wilco – In through the out door
Articles
Box Full of Letters from Issue #39
Caroline Herring – The old-fashioned way
Cary Hudson – Down from the mountain
Centro-Matic – Rapid-fire delivery
Coal Palace Kings – Casting out the demons
Country Music Annual 2002
Dave Van Ronk: 1936 to 2002
David Barbe – Learning the curve
Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: Country Music And The Southern Working Class
Eyes Adrift – Keeping their eyes on the prize
Field Reportings from Issue #39
Fortunes Not Sought
Glory Fountain – American beauty
Harlan Howard: 1927 to 2002
Hello Stranger from Issue #39
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James Blackwood: 1919 to 2002
Lisa Mednick – Atypically Texan
Louisiana Music
Nashville Rebel
Paul Buskirk / Walter Heebner
Paula Frazer – Straight outta tarnation
Pinmonkey – Take this job and play it
Retail Chart from Issue #39
Road To Nashville
Warm evenings, pale mornings
Waylon Jennings: 1937 to 2002
Will It Go Round in Circles?
Live Reviews
Blue Highways Festival – Musickcentrum Vredenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Bottle Rockets – Duck Room (St. Louis, MO)
Christy McWilson – St. John’s Pub (Portland, OR)
Kris Kristofferson Tribute – Slim’s (San Francisco, CA)
Malcolm Holcombe / Valorie Miller – The Cave (Chapel Hill, NC)
Nanci Griffith – Tennessee Theatre (Knoxville, TN)
New Pornographers / Frames – Abbey Pub (Chicago, IL)
Norah Jones – Belcourt Theater (Nashville, TN)
Ray Benson – Poor David’s Pub (Dallas, TX)
Waylon Jennings Tribute – Rodeo Bar (New York City, NY)
Album Reviews
American Ambulance – Sweetness & Dark
Blasters – Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings
Blue Chieftains – That’s All
Bonnie Raitt – Give It Up
Brooklyn Cowboys – The Other Man In Black
Charlie Sizemore – The Story Is…The Songs Of Tom T. Hall
D. Rangers – Guess Who’s Home
Damnations – Where it Lands
Darden Smith – Sunflower
Del McCoury – I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
Donna The Buffalo – Live From The American Ballroom
Greg Brown – Milk Of The Moon
Grey DeLisle – Homewrecker
Hillbilly Idol – Self-Titled
James Talley – Touchstones
Jerry Douglas – Lookout For Hope
Jim & Jennie & The Pinetops – One More In The Cabin
Jim Lauderdale – The Hummingbirds / Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – Lo…
John Trudell – Bone Days
Johnny Paycheck – The Soul & The Edge: The Best Of Johnny Paycheck
Josh Ritter – Golden Age Of Radio
Kasey Anderson – Harold St. Blues
Les Honky More Tonkies – Greatest Hits
Link Wray & The Wraymen – Slinky!/The Epic Sessions ’58-’61
Longview – Lessons In Stone
Lowest Of The Low – Nothing Short Of A Bullet
Mark Eitzel – Music For Courage And Confidence
Mason Jennings – Century Spring
Michael Hall & The Woodpeckers – Lucky Too
Mike Ireland & Holler – Try Again
Neil Halstead – Sleeping On Roads
Petty Booka – Singin’ In The Rain
Porter Hall, TN – Welcome To Porter Hall, Tennessee
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys – Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Richard Dobson – Hum of the Wheels
Richmond Fontaine – Winnemucca
Rock County – Self-Titled
Rosie Thomas – When We Were Small
Roy Acuff – Songs of the Smoky Mountains
Steve Earle – Sidetracks
Supersuckers – Must’ve Been Live
Todd Snider – New Connection
Tom Clark & The High Action Boys – Cross-Eyed And Bow-Legged
Tom Roznowski – Voice Beyond The Hill
Tommy Womack – Circus Town
Twangbangers – 26 Days On The Road
Various – This Is Where I Belong:The Songs Of Ray Davies & The Kinks
Various Artists – A Tribute To Big Star
Waylon Jennings – Phase One: The Early Years 1958-1964
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper & The Clinch Mountain Clan – The Very Best Of