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Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Tom Waits – Beacon Theatre (New York City, NY)
We are waiting. The light…cuts through the darkened hall, twists, turns…searching for something. It swoops to the rear door, finds its spot. Into the light slides the 13-years-absent Mr. Waits, entourage behind him, pushing up the aisle now, toward the stage, bullhorn in hand, bantamweight champion of the world, on his way to the center [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Box Full of Letters from Issue #24
Ugliest band in rock ‘n’ roll: Defending the Bottle Rockets I have never felt compelled to respond to a music review, but Grant Alden’s spin on the Bottle Rockets’ latest effort [ND #23, Sept.-Oct. '99] left me very confused. I don’t understand what he doesn’t get about Brand New Year. Exactly what expectations did he [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Hello Stranger from Issue #24
The inherent lag time involved in magazine deadlines is an ever-present little annoyance, often making moot any concerns about timeliness and frequently requiring rush-jobs on advance deliveries of new releases. Our answer, in part, is to present pieces that are timeless because of their quality. But inevitably the calendar throws a few curves, causing us [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Think Of The Self Speaking: Harry Smith — Selected Interviews
Most people who know of Harry Smith know him as the mastermind behind Folkways’ Anthology Of American Folk Music, the sprawling 1952 compilation that tapped the primitive side of pop music’s Depression-era zeitgeist and inspired such latter-day troubadours as Bob Dylan and Beck. Smith also recorded the Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Sacred Harp singing, and the [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
The big lake they call Gitchee Gumee
It all began when I was browsing through the atlas one day a few years back, looking for places that seemed interesting and far-removed from the beaten path. Or maybe I was listening to Joe Henry’s song “Sault Ste. Marie” and decided to find out exactly where he was singing about. I think the PBS [...]
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