Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Features
Billy Bragg – Billy Bragg and Wilco resurrect Woody Guthrie by breathing new music into his long…
BR5-49 – Touch Acts To Follow
Dave Alvin – Welcome to the working week
Lucinda Williams – Setting the record straight
Mark Lanegan – You might as well live
Martin Zellar – Growin’ Up
Randy Scruggs – Pick your friends
Articles
Bap Kennedy – Pure country from the old country
Box Full of Letters from Issue #16
Dolly Varden – Beyond 9 to 5
Drive-By Truckers – They crawled from the South
Field Reportings from Issue #16
Helen Carter: 1927 to 1998
Hello Stranger from Issue #16
Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
James Hand – A long time coming
Linda McRae – Out of the west, into the country
Lone Star Swing
Lost Continentals – Singin’ and swingin’
Marques Bovre & The Evil Twins – Multiple personality music
Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide & Directory
Retail Chart from Issue #16
Satan Is Real, but you won’t find him here
Steam Donkeys – Northern Americana
Suzanne Thomas – Branching out on her own
Tammy Wynette: 1942 to 1998
The Nashville Sound: Authenticity, Commercialization, And Country Music
There’s No Place Like Home
Live Reviews
Cowboy Nation – McCabe’s (Santa Monica, CA)
Damnations / Hazeldine – Stubb’s (Austin, TX)
Dana & Karen Kletter / Richard Buckner – The Brewery (Raleigh, NC)
Fred Eaglesmith / Robert Earl Keen – Be Here Now (Asheville, NC)
Two Dollar Pistols – Local 506 (Chapel Hill, NC)
Wayne Hancock – Gabe’s Oasis (Iowa City, IA)
Whiskeytown – Borderline (London, England)
Album Reviews
Big Sandy – Dedicated To You
Butch Hancock – The Wind’s Dominion
Chris Hillman – Like A Hurricane
Clem Snide – You Were A Diamond
Cordelia’s Dad – Spine
Deanna Varagona – “Hesitation” / “Secrets for Dusty”
Deford Bailey – Country Music’s First Black Superstar
Dwight Yoakam – A Long Way Home / Various Artists – Will Sing For Food: The Songs Of Dwight Yoakam
Earl Taylor & Jim McCall – 20 Bluegrass Favorites
Eck Robertson – Old Time Texas Fiddler
Farmer Not So John – Receiver
Fly-Rite Boys – Big Sandy Presents
Grant Lee Buffalo – Jubilee
Hammons Family – The Traditions Of A West Virginia Family And Their Friends
Jack Logan/Bob Kimbell – Little Private Angel
Jeff Black – Birmingham Road
Jerry Jeff Walker – Cowboy Boots & Bathin’ Suits
John Anderson – The Essential…
John Fahey – America
Johnny Cash / Willie Nelson – VH1 Storytellers
Justin Trevino – Texas Honkytonk
Mark O’Connor – Midnight On The Water
Mary McCaslin – Way Out West
Mike West – Race That Train
Mother Hips – Later Days
Mulehead – Never Again
Patty Griffin – Flaming Red
Pete Krebs / Golden Delicious – Self-Titled
Ray Price – The Other Woman
Richmond Fontaine – “El Cortez” / “Hardly Seen”
Ricky Skaggs – Country Gentleman: The Best of Ricky Skaggs
Roots Rock Action Figures – Calling Dr. Strong
Sandy Denny – Gold Dust: Live at the Royalty – The Final Concert
Shaver – Victory
Sin City Boys – Temptation Road
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys – Bayou Ruler
Stillwater – State Line
Stoney Edwards – The Best of Stoney Edwards: Poor Folks Stick Together
The Carter Family – Longing for Old Virginia: Their Complete Victor Recordings 1934 / Last Sessio…
The Maddox Brothers & Rose – The Most Colorful Hillbilly Band in America
Todd McBride – Sketchy
Todd Snider – Viva Satellite
Tommy Womack – Positively Na Na
Various Artists – Jukebox Cantina
Waylon Jennings – Closing In On the Fire