Issue #45 May-June 2003
Features
Evan Dando – I don’t need to be forgiven
Gibson Brothers – Standing in the shadows
Little Miss Cornshucks – A soul forgotten
Maria McKee – I Like To Use Traditional Elements And Mix Them Up In A Modern Way
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Outlaw blues
Vic Chesnutt – Little big man
Articles
Bill Carlisle: 1908 to 2003
Bluegrass: The Missing Years
Box Full of Letters from Issue #45
Brothers Cosmoline: ‘A different kind of picking cotton’
Chuck Berry: The Biography/Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life And Hard Times Of Chuck Berry
Edwin Starr / Hank Ballard / Rusty Draper
Eleni Mandell: Revelations of an X-lover
Elvis Presley
Field Reportings from Issue #45
Got live if you want it
Hello Stranger from Issue #45
Howie Epstein: 1955 to 2003
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Janet Bean: Not the weakest link
Jimmy Ryan: A man and a mandolin
Johnny Paycheck: 1938 to 2003
Legendary Shack Shakers: Courageous chickens
Lizzie West: No stone unturned
Otha Turner: 1908 to 2003
Retail Chart from Issue #45
Robinella & The CC String Band: Smoky Swing
Songbook
The Patron Saints of Bohemiaville
Verlon Thompson: I’ve fallen but I can get up
Live Reviews
Alejandro Escovedo – Nash County Arts Center (Nashville, NC)
Folk Alliance Conference – (Nashville, TN)
Iron & Wine – Knitting Factory (Los Angeles, CA)
Jayhawks – Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
Kasey Chambers – El Rey Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Robbie Fulks’ 40th Birthday Party – Martyrs (Chicago, IL)
Salute To The Blues – Radio City Music Hall (New York, NY)
Album Reviews
Al Kooper / Mike Bloomfield / Stephen Stills – Super Session
Amy Rigby – Til The Wheels Fall Off
Andrew Bird – Weather Systems
Baptist Generals – No Silver/No Gold
Beverly Smith & Carl Jones – Moving Lightly Through This World
Black Keys – Thickfreakness
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Master And Everyone
Caitlin Cary – I’m Staying Out
Cathy Rivers – Bleached
Chatham County Line – Self-Titled
Cracker / Leftover Salmon – O Cracker, Where Art Thou?
Crooked Fingers – Red Devil Dawn
Daniel Lanois – Shine
Doc Watson – Trouble In Mind: The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection1964-1998
Elvin Bishop Group – Self-Titled/Feel It!/Rock My Soul
Emory Joseph – Labor & Spirits
Eric Hisaw – Never Could Walk The Line
Fruit Bats – Mouthfull
Glossary – How We Handle Our Midnights
Henry Flynt – Back Porch Hillbilly Blues: Volume 1 And 2
Holopaw – Self-Titled
Iguanas – Plastic Silver 9-Volt Heart
James Price – Fiddlin the Old-Time Way / Randy Howard – I Rest My Case / Glen Duncan – Self-Titled
Jay Farrar – Terroir Blues
Jeff Black – B-Sides And Confessions, Volume I
Jessy Greene – Blue Sky
John Hiatt & The Goners – Beneath This Gruff Exterior
Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town/Boom Chicka Boom/Water From The Wells Of Home/The Mys…
Kate Campbell – Monuments
Last Train Home – Time And Water
Lisa Germano – Lullaby For Liquid Pig
Lost John Casner – Don’t Make Me Laugh (While I’m Drinkin’)
M. Ward – Transfiguration Of Vincent
Malcolm Holcombe – Another Wisdom
Mark Insley – Supermodel
Mark Johnson & Emory Lester – Acoustic Campaign
Martin’s Folly – Far From Hope
Minton Sparks – This Dress
Neilson Hubbard – Sing Into Me
O.C. Smith – Hickory Holler Revisited/For Once In My Life
Patty Larkin – Red = Luck
Pete Yorn – Day I Forgot
Rhonda Vincent – One Step Ahead
Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers – The Complete Specialty Recordings
Soozie Tyrell – White Lines
South San Gabriel – Welcome, Convalescence
Stephen Dawson & Diane Christiansen – Duets
Steve Ripley – Ripley
Tammy Fay Starlite & The Angels Of Mercy – Used Country Female
Thorns – Self Titled
Tom House – Long Time Home From Here
Townes Van Zandt – In the Beginning
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
Various Artists – He’s A Rebel: The Gene Pitney Story Retold
Various Artists – It’ll Come To You:The Songs Of John Hiatt
Various Artists – Lonesome, On’ry And Mean:A Tribute To Waylon Jennings
Virgil Shaw – Still Falling
Wanda Jackson – Live And Still Kickin’
Warren Zevon – The First Sessions
White Stripes – Elephant
Willie Nelson – The Essential Willie Nelson