Archives for 1997 » November
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Bo Ramsey – Feelin’ groove-y
Repetition and monotony aren’t necessarily the same thing. Monotony is always tedious; repetition, however, accounts for some of life’s most moving experiences. Whether it’s dancing, daily meditation or good sex — or, for that matter, a committed long-term relationship — there’s no substitute for abandoning oneself to a deep, abiding groove. Judging by the vamping [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind
I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded in hatred Nearly 35 years after he first sang those words, Bob Dylan finds himself tormented by those two conflicting emotions. Indeed, on Time Out Of Mind, Dylan resembles the psychotic preacher played by Robert Mitchum in the movie [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Field Reportings from Issue #12
WHITHER WHISKEYTOWN? Raleigh, N.C., band Whiskeytown has undergone yet another lineup change in the aftermath of a fight at a show in Kansas City in late September. Guitarist Phil Wandscher, drummer Steve Terry and bassist Chris Laney are no longer in the band; “We were put on the RV and sent back home” after the [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
“Someday, the train will return to these parts…”
It all traces back to 30th Street — 406 West 30th, to be precise, to the an unassuming old house directly across the street from Trudy’s Texas Star restaurant, just north of the University of Texas campus in Austin. A big hand-painted sign with the “406″ street number was nailed above a porch occupied by [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Replacements – All for Nothing/Nothing for All
The seduction of the Replacements is alive and well, and, as much as I might have intended to approach this record review with proper critical distance, well, that was blown out the window like a cigarette butt at 90 mph upon hearing the first notes of a previously unreleased, supercharged version of “Can’t Hardly Wait”. [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Whiskeytown – Exit/In (Nashville, TN)
A handwritten sign at the door announced Whiskeytown would be playing an acoustic set, and though rumors swirled among the few there not to bask in the execrable mediocrity of opener Neal Coty, it was not entirely clear what that meant until Caitlin Cary and Ryan Adams took the stage unescorted. Their second night, they [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Box Full of Letters from Issue #12
Mike McGonigal: Damned entertaining Please give Mike McGonigal a regular column. His essay on Harry Smith (and Alan Lomax, and Richard Davies, and Camper Van Beethoven, and Eugene Chadbourne, and Yo La Tengo, and Eleventh Dream Day, and many more) [ND #10, July-August 1997) is in exactly the spirit the album your magazine was named [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Ronnie Lane with Slim Chance – You Never Can Tell
When Ronnie Lane passed away in June from complications of a nearly 20-year struggle with multiple sclerosis, a significant chunk of British rock ‘n’ roll went with him. As the heart and soul of mod pioneers the Small Faces, and then with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood in the almost legendary Faces, Lane played a [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Hello Stranger from Issue #12
By the time you’ll be reading this, the annual Wavefest concert in Charleston, S.C., sponsored by local radio station WAVF-FM will have come and gone — though as I’m writing, it’s still a few days away. Which explains, in part, our lack of coverage of the event in these pages. Sometimes the simple reality of [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Nashville’s Unwritten Rules / Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
If a good ol’ boy such as Garth Brooks can fill Central Park, clearly the world needs a book (or two) that dismantles the machinery of Nashville, pokes around and finds out exactly how it operates. With his Unwritten Rules, Billboard scribe Dan Daley ponders the schizophrenia of Music City: Just how does it balance [...]
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