Forty years ago, on August 16, 2017, Elvis Presley left the building for good when he died at his home in Memphis. Fans still recall where they were on that day—I was selling shoes in a Sears store in Atlanta […]
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Here’s To Life!: The Story Of The Refreshments There was a brief time in the mid-’90s when a small Arizona bar band took popular music by storm. Following a heralded appearance at SXSW, Tempe’s The Refreshments were signed by Mercury […]
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016/Roots & Branches issue of No Depression in print. Subscribe now for just $6 per month and never miss another issue. * * There are many ways to tell the story of […]
Most weeks in my Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week column, I try to focus in on either up and coming or established artists in the very loose “roots” music definition, in keeping with me writing for a publication that has […]
Few American artists could claim territory in the national spirit like Elvis Presley. In a country where identity undergoes a constant process of multiplication and fluctuation, Elvis managed to pull everything together into a cohesive persona and performance. He was […]
Sturgill Simpson and Wheeler Walker Jr. have a few things in common. They’re both from Kentucky. They’re friends. They employ bitchin’ slide guitarists. Dave Cobb has produced albums for both of them. They’ve each been hailed as country music’s savior—Simpson […]
The life and death of horns in Americana music produced by Caucasians can be traced back to two classic rockers, Bruce Springsteen and Glenn Frey. Watching Springsteen on his River tour last month in Seattle, Jake Clemons—succeeding his late uncle […]
When I first saw Eric Andersen perform, I was floored by the sheer beauty of his music, voice, and lyrics. It was 1974 in a tiny downtown Denver club called Ebbets Field that no longer exists, and the entire audience […]
Half an hour northwest of San Antonio sits a spacious music and drinking hall called John T. Floore’s Country Store. Elvis Presley’s played there, as have Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Merle Haggard, and a multitude of Americana legends […]
The last time I saw Lemmy Kilmister, we were sitting in a small room just off the side of the stage at Amoeba Records on Sunset Boulevard. He was holding a bottle of Jack Daniels with one hand while a […]
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