Though the mythical brass ring of success in the music business is million-selling records, universal fame and adoration, and a jetset, big-spender lifestyle, in reality most musicians would settle for one thing: giving up their day job. To be able […]
Two years after leaving the Jayhawks Mark Olson finally resurfaces, and most inconspicuously, with a 10-song homemade record — and we do mean homemade: Not only was it recorded in the living room of the home in the Joshua Tree […]
More a documentary project than a musical recording, Last Rights features 10 Townes Van Zandt songs rendered solo acoustic, primarily as part of an interview session with Larry Monroe, a longtime DJ at KUT-FM in Austin. Interspersed between the musical […]
Welcome to Volume 3, folks. Issue #11 marks the beginning of our third year of publishing No Depression — our second as a bimonthly, after coming out quarterly in our initial year. Quite a bit has changed since those rather […]
It’s a predictable ending for Tremolo, a seven-minute song titled “Frog’s Lullaby” that slowly, quietly fades-to-black the hour-long musical excursion that preceded it. Such conclusions have been a trademark of most Blue Rodeo records, so you almost come to expect […]
Since 1992, Toni Price’s musical realm has been anchored by a happy-hour gig she plays every Tuesday evening at the Continental Club in her home of Austin. Accompanied by some of that city’s finest players — for the past couple […]
It’s a rainy winter night in San Francisco, but all is warm and well inside the Hotel Utah. The long, narrow room spills forth with spirits — both distilled and historical, a sense of decades-old legend and lore looming unspoken […]
You could see it in his eyes. “Hey, hop in the van, let’s have a shot,” Ryan Adams beckoned, and who was I to argue with that Peter Pan gleam and Pied Piper smile. It was Saturday night of the […]
Awhile back I wrote something about coming from an itchy footed people, and I guess you could say I’ve been scratching a good bit lately. Here’s where the road has taken me these last two months: From Los Angeles to […]
“I always just wanted to be the girl in the band,” Julie Miller confesses, by way of explaining why she rarely plays shows entirely on her own. While she might not be cut out for the role of solo singer-songwriter […]
