Invisible Republic is the 275-page accompanying booklet to a Bob Dylan box set that doesn’t exist. The subject of Marcus’ scholarly examination is a body of performances known collectively as the Basement Tapes. In the summer of 1967, having left […]
Bassist TOM RAY has left the BOTTLE ROCKETS, who toured with a temporary replacement in August as the opening act for JOHN FOGERTY on several American dates. … The SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS have broken up. See this issue’s “Miked” section […]
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 […]
LIBERTY, NORTH CAROLINA — In the glorious “Mama’s Opry”, Iris Dement tells of her mother’s closeted desire to sing at the Grand Ole Opry. Like countless other backyard singers, Dement’s mama never made it to the Ryman stage, but her […]
“Hey, we’re 6 String Drag, and we don’t know nothing ’bout playing no songs for y’all.” Singer Kenny Roby shambles up to the mike and addresses the audience with his denim locomotive engineer’s cap pulled low over his eyes. It’s […]
Bobby Bare Jr. was just 7 years old, but he remembers the last night the Ryman Auditorium hosted the Grand Ole Opry: “It was dark, and there were tons of people everywhere.” He was onstage, singing his duet, “Daddy What […]
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 […]
The last song on Buttercup’s first album, Gold, is a suitable microcosm for what the band seems is about. “That Shirt” backs you into the corner of the ring and just socks you one with a hook that’ll knock you […]
Late last summer, Clodhopper visited the Tractor Tavern in Seattle to open for the Red House Painters. My lasting impression turned out not to be from he headliner, but rather the opening act, which energized the crowd with their take […]
“I didn’t know what country was until I got my heart broken.” Jesse Dayton is explaining the unambiguously traditional country, but decidedly not retro, nature of his new CD on Justice. Track after track of Hey Nashvegas, due out August […]
