Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
ON THE COVER: Mary Gauthier. Photo by Kristina Marie Krug. Song lyric from “Prayer Without Words” by Mary Gauthier and Tom Damphear.
FRONT PORCH
Hello Stranger; Box Full Of Letters; Field Reportings.
MIKED live reviews
Alejandro Escovedo benefit in Austin, TX; Signature Sounds tenth anniversary concert in Northampton, MA; Gillian Welch & David Rawlings in Hepburn Springs, Australia; Del McCoury Band, Gibson Brothers in Albany, NY; Susan Cowsill in Charleston, SC; Jim Bryson in Toronto, ON; Buckskin Stallion in Boulder, CO.
TOWN & COUNTRY brief regional features
Nathaniel Mayer (Detrot, MI); Chatham County Line (Raleigh, NC); Ray LaMontagne (Wilton, ME); Herald Nix (Salmon Arm, BC); Foghorn Stringband (Portland, OR); Mando Saenz (Houston, TX).
NO DEPRESSION CRITICS” POLL
The top new releases and reissues of 2004.
DON”T ASK ME NO QUESTIONS Q&A
by Peter Cooper
A conversation with Kris Kristofferson.
THE LONG WAY AROUND extended features
Gourds by Ed Ward
Mary Gauthier byGrant Alden
Sonny Landreth by Geoffrey Himes
NOT FADE AWAY reissues
Stompin” At The Savoy; Spade Cooley; Al Green; Blaze Foley; Bettye Swann; Wynn Stewart & Jan Howard; Vern Williams Band; Roger McGuinn; Mother Earth; Elliott Murphy; Lefty Frizzell; Thomas Fraser; Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
WAXED reviews
Alison Krauss & Union Station; Leonard Cohen; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds; Madeleine Peyroux; Cerys Matthews; Porter Wagoner & Pam Gadd; Julie Lee; Holly Williams; David Ball; Jesse McReynolds with Travis Wetzel; Michael Hurley; Jay Bennett; Tom Gillam; Tom Freund; Trent Willmon; Clive Gregson; Mark McKay; Bill Mallonee; Low; Moaners; Two Cow Garage; Great Unknowns; Eleven Hundred Springs; Polecat Creek; Amber Digby. TRIBUTARIES: Chuck Berry; Moody Blues. FILM AT 11: Old 97”s; Norah Jones; Lyle Lovett; etc. BOUND: Bob Dylan memoir; Loretta Lynn cookbook.
THE NO DEPRESSION TOP 40
A retail chart for September-October 2004.
SCREEN DOOR stuff we like
by Silas House
Remembering Larry Brown