Archives for 1999 » July
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Alexander “Skip” Spence – Oar
Chances are you’ve heard of Alexander “Skip” Spence, but you probably haven’t heard him. You have, actually, in a sense at least, if you own either of the first two Moby Grape albums. During his 1966-68 stint in the legendary San Francisco band, Spence penned a handful of that group’s best tunes, including “Omaha”, “Indifference” [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Field Reportings from Issue #22
GRAM GEMS: Recordings of two songs Gram Parsons made with the International Submarine Band that had been missing in action for three decades recently were discovered at a BMG vault in Boyers, Pennsylvania, and have been released on an overseas compilation CD titled Fallen Angels: Legendary Country Rock Recordings. The tracks, “I Just Can’t Take [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Retail Chart from Issue #22
1 Wilco, Summerteeth (Reprise) 2 Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain (E-Squared) 3 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury) 4 Kelly Willis, What I Deserve (Rykodisc) 5 Harris/Ronstadt/Parton, Trio II (Asylum) 6 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Echo (Warner Bros.) 7 Tom Waits, Mule Variations (Epitaph) 8 Mike Ness, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Merlefest – Wilkes Community College (Wilkesboro, NC)
The summer bluegrass festival season begins with this annual event, honoring Doc Watson’s son, Merle (who died in a 1985 tractor accident). Or at least the festival season begins; summer itself wasn’t quite on schedule, for Thursday night there were reports of two inches of snow up the road in Boone. By the weekend the [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Box Full of Letters from Issue #22
No direction home: The state of alt.country Forgive me, Peter Blackstock, if I say your last “Hello Stranger” column [ND #21, May-June '99] — in which you seem to claim fans who feel betrayed by their favorite artists’ new styles are stifling artistic freedom — was just a little overblown. We all go through life [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Hello Stranger from Issue #22
Sometimes the decisions about who to put on the cover of No Depression seem to be made of their own volition. When the Gram Parsons tribute album Return Of The Grievous Angel started showing up on release schedules a few months ago, it raised an eyebrow, though not much more than that. Putting an artist [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & The Soul Of America
Nowadays, a music critic is what we call anyone who writes about music, though actual music criticism has all but disappeared. As Greil Marcus wrote in his rock crit classic Mystery Train, “a critic’s job is not only to define the context of an artist’s work but to expand that context” — to argue for [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
American Tunes
Editor’s note: As many of you are aware, this magazine was partly inspired by a message board on America Online titled “No Depression – Alt.Country”, which began in summer 1994 as an Uncle Tupelo fan board but soon grew into a forum for a much broader range of topics — usually musical, but often detouring [...]
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