Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Features
Chris Smither – Transcendental Blues
Jon Langford – Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone Not To Kill
Kimmie Rhodes – Lady Luck
Scott Miller – When you write a good song and you know it
Steve Wynn – Out of Syndication
The Drive-By Truckers – Rocking tall
Articles
Amazing Grace: The Story Of America’s Most Beloved Song
Audrey Auld – An outsider’s perspective
Big Al Downing – Still havin’ a party
Box Full of Letters from Issue #46
Chapter and Verse
Claire Holley – Not just a simple southern belle
Courtney Lee Adams Jr. – Western to East Village
Doc-umentary, my dear Watson
Felice Bryant: 1925 to 2003
Field Reportings from Issue #46
Gordon Downie – Building a bigger net
Great God A’mighty: The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating The Rise Of Soul Gosepl Music
Hello Stranger from Issue #46
Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
June Carter Cash: 1929 to 2003
Maurice Mattei – Little slices of life
Memphis in the meantime
Minibar – Try, try again
Pure Pop for Country People
Retail Chart from Issue #46
Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers Of Honky-tonk, Western Swing, And Country Jazz
Todd Steed – Sphere of influence
Live Reviews
A Tribute To The 13th Floor Elevators – Old Quarter (Galveston, TX)
Dixie Chicks – Savvis Center (St. Louis, MO)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter / Christy McWilson – Tractor Tavern (Seattle, WA)
Kathleen Edwards – Aladdin Theater (Portland, OR)
Marah – Maxwell’s (Hoboken, NJ)
Neko Case / Lisa Marr Experiment – Derby (Los Angeles, CA)
White Stripes / Loretta Lynn – Hammerstein Ballroom (New York, NY)
Album Reviews
Allison Moorer – Show
Avett Brothers – A Carolina Jubilee
Ben Winship & David Thompson – Fishing Music
Benders – Mountain Radio
Big Medicine – To Old To Be Controlled
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys – It’s Time
Blue Rodeo – Palace Of Gold
Brooks Williams – Nectar
Bruce Cockburn – You’ve Never Seen Everything
Buck Ramsey – Hittin’ The Trail
Bucky Lindsey – Back Bay Blues
Charlie Robison – Live
Chris Whitley – Hotel Vast Horizon
Clem Snide – Soft Spot
Damien Rice – O
Daniel Johnston – The Early Recordings, Volume 1
Deanna Varagona Trio – The Goodbyes Have All Been Taken, Hello
Dennis Jay – What You See
Earl Scruggs / Doc Watson / Ricky Skaggs – The Three Pickers
Ed Pettersen – Two T’s All E’s
Eliza Carthy – Anglicana
Freds Variety Group – Bells And Buzzers
Gentleman Reg – Make Me Pretty
George Jones – The Gospel Collection
Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
Go-Betweens – Bright Yellow Bright Orange
Grand Drive – Self-Titled
Greg Trooper – Floating
Hangdogs – Wallace ’48
Indicators – Kill The Messenger
James Luther Dickinson – Dixie Fried
James Monroe – The Way I Am
Jayhawks – Blue Earth
Jim Lauderdale With Donna The Buffalo – Wait ‘Til Spring
Joe Callicott – Ain’t A Gonna Lie To You
Joe Ely – Streets Of Sin
John Eddie – Who The Hell Is John Eddie?
John Mellencamp – Trouble No More
Kim Wilson – Lookin’ For Trouble
Laura Veirs – Troubled By The Fire
Luka Bloom – Amsterdam
Magnolia Summer – Levers And Pulleys
Mance Lipscomb – Trouble In Mind
Mary Lee’s Corvette – 700 Miles
Matt Munisteri & Brock Mumford – Love Story
Matt The Electrician – Made For Working
Mayday – I Know Your Troubles Been Long
Megan Reilly – Arc Of Tessa
Mississippi Fred McDowell – Heritage Of The Blues
Molly Hatchet / Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen- Greatest Hits Live
New Pornographers – The Electric Version
Otis Taylor – Truth Is Not Fiction
Pernice Brothers – Yours, Mine & Ours
Rank and File – The Slash Years
Ray Benson – Beyond Time / Suzy Bogguss – Swing!
Reckless Kelly – Under the Table & Above the Sun
Roscoe Holcomb – An Untamed Sense of Control
Sid Selvidge – A Little Bit Of Rain
Stacey Earle / Mark Stuart – Never Gonna Let You Go
Tim Grimm – Coyotes Dream / David England – Almost True
Todd Snider – Near Truths And Hotel Rooms
Tom Russell – Modern Art
Various Artists – A Country West Of Nashville
Various Artists – Kentucky Mountain Music: Classic Recordings Of The 1920s & 1930s
Various Artists – The Songs Of Hank Williams Jr.: A Bocephus Celebration
Various Artists – Too Much Time On Our Hands: A Styx Tribute Album