This week on No Depression, we’re basking in the fantastic red light glow of Willie Nelson’s album cover for God’s Problem Child. Staff reviewer Don McLeese says it “recalls the era when Willie was at his creative peak.” Also on […]
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Robyn Hitchcock has released so many albums over so many decades that even those who love him might be tempted to think, oh, another one, and then file it away. But Robyn Hitchcock (out April 21 on Yep Roc) is a […]
April 21 must be some kind of musical or spiritual get-together, or perhaps the moon is in the seventh house, as there are some outstanding releases coming out that day, the day before Record Store Day. Here’s a look at some […]
Begun in 2009 by Bonnaroo’s Ashley Capps, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a kind of surrealist anti-festival, a little bit of everything and a whole lot of everything else. It’s the kind of place where you could picture John […]
A lot has already been written about SXSW, now in its 30th year on this website and so many others. But suffice it to say, it is no longer a music festival, it is an extravaganza. Many folks I know have either […]
Why cover songs? Earlier this year, Bob Dylan said, in his now famous MusiCares speech, “Big Bill Broonzy had a song called ‘Key to the Highway’… I sang that a lot. If you sing that a lot, you just might write […]
It was a heady and rambunctious year, from bossa novas heard in New York supper clubs to dirt floor juke joints (yes, a few still exist, figuratively at least). It has been satisfying and rewarding time. I view end-of-the-year lists […]
If Robyn Hitchcock had flipped out like Syd Barrett, dropped out like Captain Beefheart or broken down like Nick Drake, he would be immortalized as a visionary genius. Instead, Hitchcock has proven maddeningly sane and durably prolific, so the boxed […]
Over the last 40 years, Bob Dylan has been lauded and lionized, while his songs have been covered, copied and caricatured. Some artists have devoted entire albums to his songs, such as the recently reissued (and expanded) The Byrds Play […]
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