Brought to wider attention last year with their Sub Pop debut Massachusetts, the Scud Mountain Boys had in fact already issued not one, but two, albums on Chunk Records one of which, Pine Box, was a vinyl-only release. Both came […]
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Red-eyed and blue here at ND headquarters on a Sunday night/Monday morning once again, the craziness is a bit more toward the ridiculous side of insanity this time. Suffice to say that when we started this thing at 32 pages […]
In retrospect, it seems surprising that American Express never tapped Jimmy Webb to do one of those “unknown celebrity” commercials they used to do. The catch-phrase would have practically been an encapsulated summation of his career: “You may not know […]
“Glen Campbell was the original country crossover guy,” Jimmy Webb contends, and he’s basically correct. Campbell’s late-’60s smash hits with Webb’s songs “By The Time I Get To Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston”, as well as John Hartford’s “Gentle On […]
Their major-label debut still on the horizon, the pride of Raleigh, North Carolina, offers up this four-song vinyl missive in the meantime, shunning for the moment the Replacements trappings for a pure, acoustic country simplicity. Nothing here rocks in the […]
In the liner notes to Devotion & Doubt, Richard Buckner says he originally wrote “Song of 27”, the album’s final track, “as a theme of sorts for an album I wanted to make based on my own family’s characters. I […]
The situation is eerily similar, when you think about it. Both bands formed in the mid-’80s in the Midwest and had co-leaders who generally wrote separately yet shared songwriting credits on all their material. Both drew caringly from the deep […]
Originally, this issue’s “Hello Stranger” column was going to be about Jeff Tweedy and the controversy over what No Depression is, and/or whether it should in fact be anything at all. Back around mid-November, when ND #6 was hot off […]
In yet another country-tinged offshoot of the Mekons — following on the heels of this issue’s cover boys the Waco Brothers and a recent solo outing by Rico Bell — Sally Timms, the only Mekon who’s actually a native of […]
We first visited Chris Mills back in issue #4 upon release of his debut single, one of the best 7-inch releases of 1996. Nobody’s Favorite shows further evidence of Mills’ promise, though it’s still more a harbinger of what may […]
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