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Field Reportings - News from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Field Reportings from Issue #15
HIGHER GROUND: Just before this issue of No Depression went to press, country music legend Tammy Wynette died in her sleep from a blood clot, on April 6. She was 55. Best-known for her oft-revived 1968 smash “Stand By Your Man”, Wynette had twenty #1 country hits and more than 50 albums to her credit. [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Retail Chart from Issue #15
1 Bob Dylan, Time Out Of Mind (Columbia) 2 Steve Earle, El Corazon (E-Squared/Warner Bros.) 3 Butch Hancock, You Coulda Walked Around The World (Rainlight) 4 Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac (Outpost) 5 Cheri Knight, The Northeast Kingdom (E-Squared) 6 Derailers, Reverb Deluxe (Sire/Watermelon) 7 Alejandro Escovedo, More Miles Than Money (Bloodshot) 8 Various Artists, E-Town Live [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Johnny Paycheck – She’s All I Got
A haunting study in perpetual dissatisfaction, the life and career of Johnny Paycheck more than meet the stereotypical profile of a honky-tonk singer. He’s been a rambling teenage drifter, an erratic grown-up drunk and a druggie. He’s been in trouble with the IRS, too, and he’s even done hard time, once while in the Navy [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Victoria Williams & The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers – Park West (Chicago, IL)
As with “Kashmir’s Corn” in the starlight of 4 a.m., Victoria Williams nourished her fans with homely kernels, familiar and essential as the horse’s own. The surroundings were not the desert night, but rather the spiffy tiers and rolled banquettes, the mirrored ball and carpeted aisles of the 750-capacity Park West in the heart of [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Box Full of Letters from Issue #15
Escovedo: Point I want to say first and foremost that I am an Alejandro Escovedo fan. I think also I could consider myself a friend of the man. I was fan of the True Believers before I was fan of the Al the solo artist. In fact, I gave Al one of his first gigs [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Hello Stranger from Issue #15
For two years in a row now, we’ve managed, quite unintentionally, to schedule our final production weekend for the May-June issue in synchronicity with the final two rounds of The Masters. Some of you may be aware of my occasionally obsessive fascination with that sport in which folks try to hit a little white ball [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Louis Marshall “Grandpa” Jones: 1913 to 1998
Roughly 30 years ago, my mother — then a young nurse in a small rural hospital — was recruited by the county to be on night call for a dying 92-year-old woman whose family had promised to keep her out of the nursing home. The house was remotely located, so rather than send Mother alone, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Various Artists – What’s That I Hear? The Songs of Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs’ voice never seemed a daunting instrument. It was his words, the 19th-century passion with which they were strung together, the political fury they expressed and, even, the ambition with which he sought to bring that message to a wider audience — but mainly it was his words that seemed most important. Dylan’s rival, [...]
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