Archives for 2002 » January
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Brother Trucker – On the poor side of town
Home to a quarter-million souls, one of the coolest minor-league ballparks on the planet, and the definitive state fair (this year’s included pie-eating contests, the Butter Cow and Bob Dylan in its blithely guileless presentation), Des Moines is best known as (ahem) “The Insurance Capital Of The World.” Hardly the recipe for a rock ‘n’ [...]
A Place to be - About a Place from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Cowboy couture
A composite of reality and fable, the cowboy represents many aspects of the American national character. He is a rugged individualist with a strong sense of values and an insatiable quest for adventure. He’s hard-working, smart and kind, but doesn’t take crap from anybody. These ideals are echoed in various forms of western expression, from [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
American Roots Music
At the end of the second segment of the four-part American Roots Music special, narrator Kris Kristofferson states with wonder that from 1930-1954, America gave birth to country and western, western swing, honky tonk, bluegrass, and rock ‘n’ roll, and also became broadly aware of traditional folk music. It’s a simple statement, but breathtaking — [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Dan Baird & The Sofa Kings – Redneck Savant
Everyone’s favorite satellite from Georgia, Dan Baird, has recently been serving up twang and thunder in the refreshingly blue-collar Yayhoos. Here, via a 2000 concert set recorded in Switzerland, he tugs that collar down and proudly shows off his farmer’s tan line. And then some; the Sofa Kings’ treatments of AC/DC (a Bon-tastic stomp through [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Self-Titled
Creedence Clearwater Revival was a rarity, an American band that gained massive popularity and used it to produce statements — musical and more — against the popular progressive rock grain of their moment. Some of that phenomenal popular success (15 singles in the Top 10, when that still meant something) was a result of their [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Retail Chart from Issue #37
1 Bob Dylan, Love And Theft (Columbia) 2 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 3 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway) 4 Various Artists, Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt (Pedernales/Freefalls) 5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder) 6 Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator) (Acony) 7 Jay Farrar, Sebastopol [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Box Full of Letters from Issue #37
Ragged Old Glory: Different ways to love your country My very first issue of No Depression came in the mail today, and while I can’t wait to tear into it, I felt compelled to stop for a moment and write in response to your editorial on patriotism and reclaiming the flag [ND #36, Nov.-Dec. 2001]. [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Field Reportings from Issue #37
WILCO WORLD: After discussing offers from various labels, WILCO has signed with Nonesuch, which is tentatively planning to release the band’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in April. Wilco severed ties with Reprise after major disagreements with the label regarding the album, which was mixed by indie rocker Jim O’Rourke. Wilco reportedly bought the album back from [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Grady Martin: 1929 to 2001
Instrumental prowess alone is not enough for studio musicians. Working in virtual anonymity, the best are chameleonlike, peripatetic geniuses who hop from session to session, plumbing their virtuosity to enhance a singer or instrumentalist. Nashville’s legendary A-Team, who dominated country records from the 1950s to the ’70s, had an additional requirement: a flair for inventing [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Where Dead Voices Gather
Since the 1977 publication of his landmark book Country: The Biggest Music In America, Nick Tosches has engaged in what he describes as “my pursuit of the ghost of Emmett Miller.” Country included two chapters on Miller, a yodeling blackface singer whose unique vocal style was an influence on Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Merle [...]
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