On The Way I’m Livin’, her first album in six years, Lee Ann Womack comes upon the devil, shares a bottle with him (the first taste is free), then crashes to her knees in despair. A few songs later, she […]
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We each inevitably hear music in the particular ways that we do at least partly because of all that we’ve heard before because of the context and expectations we bring to new work. For instance, many of us have anticipated […]
One of my favorite songs of this still-fresh century is Otis Gibbs’ “I Wanna Change It”. From his album One Day Our Whispers, it’s an inspiring sing-along that has only grown in relevance since its release in 2004. Allow me […]
The type of music capable of being evoked by the term “No Depression” has been in a more or less constant state of expansion since this magazine’s beginnings. The process began in 1995, of course, with the magazine’s titular appropriation […]
Across the height and breadth of the so-called Dirty South, there’s no hip-hop act that is dirty and southern in quite the ways that Nappy Roots are. First of all, Nappy Roots are “dirty” not only because they’re “low-down” or […]
I remember coming downstairs that morning in 1988 and hearing, on The Today Show I think, that Roy Orbison had died, at age 52 and only just then settling into a career resurgence with his compatriots, the Traveling Wilburys. What […]
One of 2008’s best country reissues, maybe even the best, is Ernest V. Stoneman: The Unsung Father Of Country Music, 1925-1934. The 46-track collection is smartly packaged, including a small hard-bound book with lots of photos. But it’s the savvy […]
The new HBO series True Blood imagines an America where vampires not only walk among us but are fighting for their civil rights. Though still hated and feared by humans, the undead have at last been able to come out […]
Levi Stubbs the man who sang “Reach Out I’ll Be There” and “Standing In The Shadows Of Love”, “Ask The Lonely” and “Ain’t No Woman Like The One I Got” died last week. All of those records were credited to […]
Something remarkable happened on the country charts this past week: A black man, Hootie & the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker, had the #1 entry on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the first time since Ray Charles landed there […]
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