Among the many important breaking news stories that seem to shout at us from social media and the television every 15 minutes, I don’t think anything got my attention more than the one about Taylor Swift. No, I’m not talking […]
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First built as a wooden plank road in 1888 from the top of The Bronx into the hamlets and villages north of the city, the section of Central Park Avenue that runs from Yonkers to White Plains is showing its […]
My dear editor probably won’t like the title for this year’s annual list of my favorite music releases and new discoveries. I try to be the early-bird worm catcher before the onslaught of the thousands of other end-of-the-year lists, many […]
Many of our collective memories about the ’60s didn’t actually occur during that decade. In fact, most cultural events we ascribe to that decade today actually took place in the 10-year period after the Summer of Love in 1967 and […]
In addition to writing this weekly column, I also aggregate flotsam and jetsam from multiple sources that I post throughout each day on a Facebook page as a non-commercial service to share with fans of Americana and roots music. Some […]
In a very different time and place in my life I used to sit in conference rooms with my colleagues, sip coffee or tea, eat fruit and baked goods, and listen to music. It didn’t matter the genre; who sang, […]
This morning I came across a BuzzFeed list of “21 Signs You’re Officially An Old Person,” and not surprisingly I connected with about half of them. Indeed, I had to hand crank the windows of my old cars, carried around […]
I’ve recently discovered a new diet. Each evening when I get home from work I put on the television, turn to Fox News, watch Tucker Carlson for five minutes, and then completely lose my appetite. To be fair, while I […]
If you’ve followed my articles and columns at No Depression through the past ten-plus years, you likely know that I have a special place in my heart for Moby Grape. When an argument breaks out about the genesis of Americana […]
It’s a week after the first day of autumn here in New York, and it’s going to break 90 degrees outside as I sit in an air conditioned room listening to some new tunes. Perhaps it’s simply “fake weather” and […]
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