If there were more lawyers out there like William Morgan, all those lawyer jokes that inevitably make the rounds wouldn’t be necessary. Morgan, you see, is a bluegrass fan, and that makes all the difference in the world. In what […]
If there were more lawyers out there like William Morgan, all those lawyer jokes that inevitably make the rounds wouldn’t be necessary. Morgan, you see, is a bluegrass fan, and that makes all the difference in the world. In what […]
Such is the power of Nashville, as both a place and a metaphor, that it can be hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t the center of the country music universe. Even for those with enough history under their […]
On its way to topping critics’ polls across the country, Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels On A Gravel Road was justly lauded as a showcase for the artist’s many skills: her consummate songwriting, her grainy, earthy vocals, her attention to detail. […]
The, uh, unorthodox cover of this issue was really just a coincidence, driven primarily by the dilemma of how to present a decidedly horizontal photo within a plainly vertical template. But once Grant had stood one of the basic tenets […]
Bonnie Palace Whoozit: Much ado about Oldham After reading Grant Alden’s March column [“Hello Stranger”, ND #20, March-April ’99], I tracked down Will Oldham’s article [Time Out New York, Dec. 10-17, 1998]. As a published scholar of African-American literature and […]
“No Depression” history revises itself For years now, we’ve been explaining to folks who ask about our magazine’s name that it’s derived from: 1) a Carter Family song from the 1930s called “No Depression in Heaven” written by A.P. Carter; […]
1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 2 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared) 3 Harris/Ronstadt/Parton, Trio II (Asylum) 4 Ani DiFranco, Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe) 5 Billy Bragg […]
One bitter night in 1997, the Backsliders played the leading edge of a snowstorm at Schubas Tavern in Chicago for ten souls with less sense than love for rock ‘n’ roll. Like the Southern sun, the stage lights echoed from […]
It’s a typical follow-your-dream story. Rob Stroup was in tenth grade and Matt Brown in eighth when they started playing music together in the small town of Newberg, Oregon. Brown went off to Denton, Texas, for college, where he caught […]
Dave Moore has been something of an enigma throughout his career. A singer of great warmth, resonance and passion, a songwriter of startling clarity, and a masterful musician on guitar, harmonica and button accordion, Moore, has nevertheless remained in the […]
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