On the cover: Jay Farrar. Illustration by Glenn Hilario.
FRONT PORCH
Hello Stranger; Box Full Of Letters; Field Reportings; Farther Along.
A PLACE TO BE
Regional portrait
Festivals Acadiens and other Louisiana treasures.
MIKED
Live reviews
Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys in Minneapolis, MN; Hank Thompson, Domino Kings in Crane, MO; Pine Valley Cosmonauts & Friends in Chicago, IL; Wilco in Austin, TX; Waco Brothers, Sally Timms in Melbourne, Australia; Dave Edmunds in Hoboken, NJ; Jim Campilongo Band in New York City, NY; Yayhoos in Lexington, KY.
TOWN & COUNTRY
Brief regional features
Los Straitjackets (Nashville, TN); Kevin Salem (New York City, NY); Cindy Bullens (Nashville, TN); Jimmy Rankin (Halifax, NS); Lazy Sunday Dream (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Matt Keating (New York City, NY); Randy Casey (Minneapolis, MN); Aimless Blades (Madison, WI).
DONT ASK ME NO QUESTIONS
Q&A
Loudon Wainwright III (interview by Roy Kasten).
THE LONG WAY AROUND
Extended features
Beachwood Sparks (by Paige La Grone
Derailers (by David Cantwell)
Gatemouth Brown (by Mike Perry)
Jay Farrar (by Peter Blackstock)
Wayne Hancock (by Christopher Flores)
Kitty Wells (by Bill Friskics-Warren)
NOT FADE AWAY
Reissues
Charley Patton; X; Wild Seeds; Old-Time Texas String Bands; Jimmy Martin; Philadelphia Folk Festival; Doc Watson; Del McCoury; Hoyt Axton; McGuinn, Clark & Hillman; John Hiatt; Robert Pete Williams.
WAXED
Reviews
Buddy & Julie Miller; Ralph Stanley; George Jones; Merle Haggard; Dallas Wayne; Ricky Skaggs; Earl Scruggs; Bruce Robison; Beaver Nelson; Steve Earle/Townes Van Zandt/Guy Clark; John Hartford; Danny Barnes; Sam Phillips; Kelly Hogan; Handsome Family; Sparklehorse; Jenny Toomey; Lambchop; Matthew Ryan; Michael Fracasso; Pat Haney; Phil Lee; Bill Kirchen; Welterweights; Jeffrey Halford; James Leva; Fred Koller; Gene Parsons; Dan Bern; Vigilantes Of Love; Kanes River; Mountain Heart; Jon Chandler; Freedy Johnston; Greta Lee; A.C. Cotton; Scott Tuma; The National; Weisstronauts; Stelle Group; Hobart Willis & the Back Forty; Jamie Ness; Jon Shain; Screen Door Music; Bob Dylan. Singles: Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys; Tennessee Twin; Two Dollar Pistols. Tributes: Hank Williams; Ernest Noyes Brookings; Charley Patton. Books: Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life Of Elvis Presleys Eccentric Manager (by James L. Dickerson); Romancing The Folk: Public Memory And American Roots Music (by Benjamin Filene); Footnotes.
THE NO DEPRESSION TOP 40
A retail chart for July-August 2001.
SCREEN DOOR
Stuff we like
Music.
