Jon Shain has been bumping around the North Carolina scene since his days in the proto-jam rock band Flyin’ Mice, but more recently he has released a string of albums in a more blues/Americana direction. Times Right Now, his latest […]
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This week, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion are bringing their traveling musical family act through my neck of the woods; Irion and I recently discussed the duo’s two new albums they’re promoting, and another one that’ll be out next […]
Though Don Dixon has passed through Columbia, South Carolina several times over the last couple decades, his wife Marti Jones’ last performance here was in 1987, so she was long overdue. In the cozy confines of an on-campus cafe space […]
WPA September 16, 2009 The White Mule, Columbia SC With their brand spanking new album only a day old, the first official tour of the Works Progress Administration promised to be something special, and it lived up to its billing […]
South Carolina singer-songwriter Danielle Howle has a new CD out, Swamp Sessions, that’s as stripped down and acoustic as it gets–recorded in just six hours in a solar-powered house in a Carolina swamp, it’s a field recording that comes awful […]
Whatever Happened To The Great American Bubble Factory, the new Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ album, is due out at the end of the month. From the MC5 and Stooges-inspired “Detroit City” to the sentimental ode to homesickness, “I See Georgia,” (complete […]
The first piece I ever contributed to the print version of No Depression was a CD review of Anarky, Tennessee, the debut of punkabilly honky-tonker Hick’ry Hawkins. I mention this because Hawkins (Currently based in Charlotte, NC) is still out […]
Former Rank Outsider leader Bill Noonan just released his second solo CD, The Man That I Can’t Be. Go HERE for my new review of the album, or just watch the clip below from last week’s CD release show in […]
Yes, there’s a new Son Volt album out, and others here have already commented on it. In searching out some new live clips, however, I found the following version of “Windfall,” still the quintessential Farrar song–wish they’d sung stuff this […]
You may be familiar with Sarah Lee Guthrie and her husband Johnny Irion, the third generation of musical Guthries (following Woody and Arlo), but if you haven’t seen them lately you’re missing out on the next generation–Johnny and Sarah Lee’s […]
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