Archives for 2002 » July
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Otis Blackwell: 1931 to 2002
Songwriter Otis Blackwell, author of several touchstones of early rock ‘n’ roll, died May 6 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 70. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Blackwell briefly pursued a singing career as a young man, but it was as a writer that he discovered himself — and that he helped to invent what we [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity / Thirteen Years
In 1991, Alejandro Escovedo turned 40 and also turned a corner personally and artistically. In the liner notes to the newly reissued Gravity, he writes, “One day the world stopped spinning until it took on the proportions of a lifetime, never to be the same again — out of this deafening roar Gravity was born.” [...]
No Depression Top 40 Retail Chart - Retail Chart from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Retail Chart from Issue #40
1 Various Artists, O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury/Lost Highway) 2 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 3 Kasey Chambers, Barricades And Brickwalls (Warner Bros.) 4 Uncle Tupelo, 89/93 Anthology (Sony Legacy) 5 Alison Krauss & Union Station, New Favorite (Rounder) 6 Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses (ATO) 7 Ryan Adams, Gold (Lost Highway) 8 Willie [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Dr. Ralph Stanley’s Memorial Bluegrass Festival – Hills of Home Park (Coeburn, VA)
The past year has been good to Ralph Stanley. Winner of a Grammy award for his a cappella rendition of “O Death” from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Stanley has suddenly found himself the toast of the town from Hollywood to New York to Nashville. Stanley’s turn in the national spotlight is a [...]
Box Full of Letters - Letters to the Editor from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Box Full of Letters from Issue #40
Losing country: And rock ‘n’ roll too? I thought Grant Alden made an important point in his Mike Ireland review [ND #39, May-June 2002] — that, mostly, real country music is no longer the music of “country people.” I’ve often been struck, for instance, that the country acts featured in this magazine — from Junior [...]
Hello Stranger - Editor's Note from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Hello Stranger from Issue #40
Sometimes this 2/3-page hole begs to be filled with comments and observations on a hot subject or timely topic. Other times, nothing obvious rises to the fore that demands to be written about. See if you can guess which one this is. That being the case, it seems apropos to cast the net randomly, picking [...]
Film at 11 - DVD review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
The Last Waltz Directed By Martin Scorsese MGM (DVD)
As would be expected from both Robbie Robertson and director Martin Scorsese, the new DVD edition of The Last Waltz has received superb audio and visual transfers. The cover boasts that this is “the finest of all rock movies.” In this case, the word “finest” could refer to characteristics beyond “greatest” or “best”; the connotation [...]
Field Reportings - News from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Field Reportings from Issue #40
SECOND TIME AROUND: The DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS’ double-disc Southern Rock Opera, originally issued last fall on the band’s own label, has been picked up by Lost Highway Records and will receive a national release on July 16. The label has also signed on to put out the DBTs’ next album, set to be recorded this summer [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Various Artists – Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood (soundtrack)
Veering from his unlikely role revitalizing old-time bluegrass, T Bone Burnett explores different terrain this time around in his continued quest to revive the dying art of the soundtrack. His companion piece to the Ashley Judd/Sandra Bullock film Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood is as pleasantly unambitious as O Brother, Where Art Thou? was [...]
Bound - Book Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Close Harmony: A History Of Southern Gospel
James Blackwood, founding member of the Blackwood Brothers quartet, died February 3, 2002, at the age of 82. He performed on over 200 albums and won nine Grammy awards. He was an influence upon, and inspiration to, Elvis Presley and other Southern progenitors of rock ‘n’ roll. Yet James Blackwood’s death went unmentioned at the [...]
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