Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999

Features
Dave Schramm – Somehow A Spiritual Thing
Dolly Parton – The smartest working woman in show business
Gomez – Magic carpet riders
Kris Kristofferson – Partly truth and partly fiction
Michael Hurley – Primary Colors
Sacred Steel – A joyful noise
Articles
Accelerators – Picking up speed
Accident Clearinghouse – Studies in contrast
Beau Jocque / John Bystrom
Box Full of Letters from Issue #24
David Wiffen – Finding his driving wheel
Field Reportings from Issue #24
Flathead – Desert diesel ditties
Hello Stranger from Issue #24
Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Joe Goldmark – Pedaling far afield
Jon Randall – Ghosts outside the machine
Love Always, Patsy: Patsy Cline’s Letters To A Friend
Map Of Wyoming – Beating the retreat
Meredith Louise Miller – In her rearview mirror
Mulehead – Not quitting their day jobs
Nancy Moore – A voice in the Hall way
Retail Chart from Issue #24
Sugarfoot – Rebuilding year
The big lake they call Gitchee Gumee
The Boys of Summer
Think Of The Self Speaking: Harry Smith — Selected Interviews
Live Reviews
Alex Chilton – 40 Watt Club (Athens, GA)
Buddy Holly Rock & Roller Dance Party – Roseland Ballroom (New York City, NY)
Dale Watson / Hangdogs – Lynagh’s (Lexington, KY)
David Halley / Lonesome Bob / Hayseed – Sutler (Nashville, TN)
Dirk Powell / Tim O’Brien / John Herrmann – Station Inn (Nashville, TN)
Gram Parsons Tribute – Sessions At West 54th (New York City. NY)
Hank Williams Tribute – Lisner Auditorium (Washington, DC)
Kitty Wells – Jamil Shrine Temple (Columbia, SC)
Roger McGuinn – Chicago Folk Center (Chicago, IL)
Tom Waits – Beacon Theatre (New York City, NY)
Album Reviews
Anna Fermin’s Trigger Gospel – Things To Come
Big Brother & The Holding Company – Self-Titled
Blue Mountain – Tales Of A Traveler
Bruce Henderson – Beyond The Pale
Cindy Bullens – Somewhere Between Heaven And Earth
David Grisman / John Hartford / Mike Seeger – Retrograss
Derailers – Full Western Dress
Don Walser – Here’s To Country Music
Dudley Connell / Don Rigsby – Meet Me By The Moonlight
East River Pipe – The Gasoline Age
Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadours – Another Story / Live New Year’s Eve 1979
Ex-Husbands – All Gussied Up
Guy Clark – Cold Dog Soup
Hank Williams III – Risin’ Outlaw
Holy Modal Rounders – The Holy Modal Rounders 1 & 2
Innocence Mission – Birds Of My Neighborhood
John Prine – In Spite Of Ourselves
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison / Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins – I Walk The Line / Little Fauss And …
Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum – Winter’s Grace
Linda Ronstadt – Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions
Marshall Crenshaw – Number 447
Maya Y CantU – El Primero Conjunto Norteno Famoso / Lydia Mendoza – Vida Mia
Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers Quartet – The Grand Old Gospel / More Grand Old Gospel
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – The Long Ride
Red Dirt Rangers – Rangers’ Command
Rob Veal – self-titled
Roger Wallace – Hillbilly Heights
Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys – The RC Cola Shows, Vol. 1
Sally Timms – Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments…For Lost Buckaroos
Shannon Stephens – How I Got Away (EP)
Steve Pride – Pride On Pride
The Kendalls – 16 Greatest Hits
Tom Rush – The Very Best Of Tom Rush: No Regrets
Tony Rice – Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen
Trailer Bride – Whine De Lune
Two Dollar Pistols With Tift Merritt – Self-Titled (EP)
Various Artists – From Spirituals To Swing: The Legendary 1938 & 1939 Carnegie Hall Concerts
Various Artists – Poor Little Knitter On The Road: A Tribute To The Knitters
Various Artists – Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949