A three-hour drive up the road afforded the opportunity to catch both Alejandro Escovedo (the No Depression print magazine's artist of the decade for the 1990s) and Buddy Miller (our artist of the decade for the 2000s, in our final print issue) on the same night, at different venues, in Richmond, Virginia. So I took it.



Timing turned out to be a little tricky, as both shows were early-starts; thus, I ended up seeing Alejandro's first set and part of his second at the impressive… Continue

A few days ago I recycled an old blog-post (one of a fair bundle that Grant and I wrote circa 2007-2008 that didn't end up making the transition to this iteration of the ND site) over on my personal blog, That Magnificent Ghost. It involved the exemplary 2008 documentary film Purple State Of Mind, made by Craig Detweiler and John Marks, the latter of whom ended up writing… Continue

It should be made clear, from the outset, that no $20 compensation is due for this post.





I've heard this song for at least 20 years, having bought the LP sometime in the 1980s, and the CD-reissue circa 1990. The recording linked here was made in 1972:



http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Keeper+Of+The+Mountain/1Xpatm



The band is the Flatlanders. The song is "Keeper… Continue

KARLA BONOFF

ArtsCenter (Carrboro, NC)

February 13, 2010



By Peter Blackstock



"That was scary. I haven't played that song in about 25 years," Karla Bonoff confided to the crowd of a couple hundred after performing "Only A Fool". It was a surprising revelation, given that the song is one of the better-known tracks from her 1979 sophomore album Restless Nights. What prompted Bonoff to mothball it for a quarter-century is unclear, but let it be said that the… Continue

Some thoughts about Vic Chesnutt:

http://thatmagnificentghost.blogspot.com/