Back in the mid-1950s, when Bob Dylan was an aspiring teen rocker, his combo secured a gig performing in the lobby of his hometown’s National Guard Armory, as incidental entertainment for a pro wrestling card. As they raved it up […]
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HELLO GOODBYE: Tex-Mex supergroup LOS SUPER SEVEN have re-assembled for a third album. Raul Malo, Rick Trevino, Flaco Jimenez, Joe Ely and Freddy Fender return from the earlier outings, while Delbert McClinton, John Hiatt, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Redd Volkaert […]
An armload of new DVDs featuring adventurous Texans greet this new year, but the one many of you will have been waiting for is Old 97’s Live At The Troubadour (New West). The band’s first live video performance release ever […]
Word has it the people who last owned the Glass House at the top of Cemetery Hill used to feed the foxes. We are accustomed to seeing deer, though it is now hunting season and they’ve turned color and withdrawn, […]
All Americans: Red & blue in black & white, and gray I just skimmed through my second issue of ND since becoming a subscriber. I’m a bit perplexed as to why some people got their panties all in a wad […]
1 Tom Waits, Real Gone (Anti-) 2 Elliott Smith, From A Basement On The Hill (Anti-) 3 Steve Earle, The Revolution Starts…Now (E-Squared/Artemis) 4 Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (New West) 5 Various Artists, This Is Americana (NARM) 6 Elvis […]
PREFACE: Cool rockin’ Loretta That Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose was the runaway winner in our second annual No Depression critics’ poll comes as no surprise. Though Lynn didn’t receive so much as a nomination from the Country Music Association […]
They have the instrumentation and sound of a bluegrass band. They definitely dress like one, and the four guys sure look comfortable gathered around that one microphone. But there’s an intangible at work, or maybe a specter — the ghost […]
We’re clustered around a picnic table in the Power Station, an outbuilding of what used to be the county poorhouse outside Portland, Oregon. Caleb Klauder and Sammy Lind, two Foghorn Stringband members, are here for their regular Tuesday night gig, […]
Some things are not accidents. I had agreed to write a story on the Gourds for this magazine, and so I was in the process of gathering up some of the stuff I didn’t have, which included their previous album […]
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