History, as the saying goes, is written by the victors. And then rewritten by each successive generation as re-examined through the lens of its particular time, that distance serving to clarify and obscure all at once. Woody Guthrie made up […]
Spring Fever? Something in the air has allowed a pile of new roots video DVDs from the twisted end of the Twang Continuum to escape all at once — mainly, it seems, from California. The most mind-boggling of the offerings […]
STILL FEEL (NOT SO) GONE: In addition to the new live CD and DVD package Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (reviewed in this issue’s Live Wires section), Jay Farrar is offering a downloadable live show through his website (www.jayfarrar.net) of […]
I recall an evening, a good while before this magazine came into existence, in which my future co-editor and I were discussing the status of a local music rag that was in the midst of troubled times, and how it […]
Patty Griffin: “Filled with emotion” Just wanted to send an appreciative note for the delightful feature on Patty Griffin in ND #50 [March-April 2004]. John T. Davis did a wonderful job capturing the magic and energy that infects everything Patty […]
1 Norah Jones, Feels Like Home (Blue Note/EMI) 2 Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American/Lost Highway) 3 Flatlanders, Wheels Of Fortune (New West) 4 Mindy Smith, One Moment More (Vanguard) 5 Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop) […]
When is a tribute album not a tribute album? Quite often, actually, depending on exactly how you define the beast. A handful of new releases serve as cases in point of the different approaches that can be taken in assembling […]
When Alecia Nugent began to sing with her father’s band, she didn’t realize how unusual it was for a woman to front a bluegrass group. She also hadn’t realized that every bluegrass singer she’d seen onstage played an instrument. She […]
It’s not that Amy Farris lacked the talent to step out on her own. After nearly a decade playing fiddle and singing harmony with some of Austin’s finest artists, including Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison and Alejandro Escovedo, she’d certainly developed […]
It took more than twenty years for Angel Dean and Sue Garner to get around to Pot Liquor. The two women, both southerners by birth (Dean grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Garner in Cave Spring, Georgia) first met in […]
