MUSCLE SHOALS SYMPOSIUM: On November 13, the University of North Alabama in Florence hosted a symposium titled “Muscle Shoals Sounds: The Rhythm Of The River” that examined the musical history of the Muscle Shoals area. Muscle Shoals began its ascent […]
We have grown older in the four-plus years since No Depression began, and I do not mean to speak of my creaking knees, nor of my graying temples. No, those artists whose stories provide the core to each issue of […]
Chicks catalog: Early albums overlooked In your review of the Dixie Chicks’ Fly [ND #23, Sept.-Oct. ’99}, Peter Blackstock makes the appalling error (in the first sentence!) of stating that this is the Dixie Chicks’ second album. The Chicks have […]
1 John Prine, In Spite Of Ourselves (Oh Boy) 2 Ronstadt/Harris, Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum) 3 Various Artists, Return Of The Grievous Angel: A Tribute To Gram Parsons (Almo) 4 Lyle Lovett, Live In Texas (Curb) 5 Leftover […]
There is something in the air in Austin, Texas, something that makes the city recklessly attractive. It is common, for instance, to hear first-time visitors talk about the possibility of moving there after only a few hours in town. No […]
The scheduling is the hardest part, really. Take five guys with various domestic situations and pressing musical commitments in popular local, regional and national bands, and you’re bound to run short of time for a side project. But just having […]
One might not be too surprised to learn that Danny Barnes of the Bad Livers has given guitar lessons to someone who once gave lessons to Lucinda Williams’ ace guitarist Kenny Vaughan — but few would fathom that the “someone” […]
“Now a song written by the great Freddy Fender — Freddy, this is for you, wherever you are,” said Doug Sahm, introducing not only “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights” but the almost mythic expanse of Texas music to rock fans […]
Ed Burleson still swings a hammer and digs ditches to make a living by day. By night, the soft-spoken, teddy-bear-faced, sixth-generation Texan makes pure, traditional country music. And he’s going to keep doing it his way. “Money isn’t important enough […]
“Hayseed is, in my mind, on the same level as Bob Dylan and Neil Young and Van Morrison,” says Lucinda Williams. “That’s just what I think, that’s my opinion, for what it’s worth. I don’t say that about everybody who […]
