It’s been at least 20 years since I sat in front of a television and watched the Grammys, and this year was no different. Award shows in general just don’t capture my interest, but I did channel surf a few […]
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Last week I remembered to check the humidity level in the room where I store some of my guitars in the winter months, and when I opened the case of my Martin 000-15M the smell of mahogany filled the room […]
Several months ago when I transitioned from an owner of music to a renter via streaming, the first selection I imported into my cloud-based digital library was a collection of folk music I first heard when I was just a […]
When most people think back to the ’60s, some things that might come to mind could be the social, cultural, and political changes; exploration of recreational drugs; the sexual revolution; and otherwise turbulent times. And yet, as the world was […]
I was driving down the highway for my first listen of One More Crooked Dance and barely made it through the second song when I could sense something was very different. By the second note of the third song I […]
It’s the night after Christmas in 2017, and I’m sitting on my bed surrounded by a pile of old No Depression magazines. I pulled them down off the top shelf in my bedroom closet because I have a deadline looming […]
Over the years, musicians have come up with creative ideas on how to fund their projects using crowdsourcing. With record labels no longer in the position to offer speculative financial investments, it’s up to the artist to beg, borrow, and […]
It was late summer of 1990 and several hundred music distribution and record label weasels had gathered in Dallas at the Grand Kapinski Hotel for our annual sales convention. The last night of three days of meetings and artist showcases […]
As we’re deep into the holiday season, you can’t help but hear the jingle-jangle Christmas music that is played endlessly at every store and mall in America from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. While some people seem to add a pep […]
While the topic here is often about the music we listen to, it got me thinking about how we listen to it. Those who have followed me here at No Depression over these past nine years already know that I […]
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