A few years ago, a No Depression staffer was about to head out to the Sasquatch! Festival (the exclamaition point is part of the name, not an editorial comment) and they put up their list of camping supplies on Facebook. […]
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In over five years of writing and posting stories here on the No Depression website, there has never been a performer nor a song, nor a topic, that has blocked my ability to sit down and write at will. While […]
Welcome to the 42nd installment of random thoughts, trivial facts. occasional fiction, poetry, haikus, photos, artwork, stories of fleeting fame and dastardly deeds, and videos or tunes that may have caught my attention or fancy of late. As you can see […]
Last night I greeted musician, artist and my internet friend Pal Shazar the same way I did the first time we met a little over a year ago: with a big hug. As those who read my posts know, and […]
This is a tale with two moving parts. First, a twenty-two year old young woman becomes so good, so fast…and delivers two sets of impeccable and improbable American roots music last night that it just might be as good as […]
Frankie Pistachio woke up a little before noon in a cheap but clean motel some thirty miles outside of Kansas City, nursing a severe hangover. He laid there and listened to the voice of the colorful plastic clown just outside […]
On November 9, 2013 Chuck E. Costa and Mira Stanley, two musicians based in Connecticut with a dotted line to West Virginia, who travel around and make beautiful music together, sent me a copy of their new album Love We […]
Back in 2009 when I was living in a little valley north of San Diego, there wasn’t much live music except the annual bluegrass festival, some fusion jazz at the wineries and the occasional busker working the farmer’s market. In […]
JANUARY 27,2014|10:40PM PT RE-POSTED FROM VARIETY with permission from Christopher Morris Folk singer Pete Seeger, who established the music as an expression of community, conscience and social justice during a career that spanned eight decades, has died. He was 94. […]
One day in 2006 or thereabouts when I was still living in Southern California, I found myself in Hollywood at Amoeba Records in a position I often took when I visited there: laying down flat on my stomach, with the […]
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